Palm Springs Mobile Home Protest
Drugs, sex, murder, and now residents at the Parkview Mobile Estates in Palm Springs want an end to the madness.
Resident said management is the problem at a protest on Wednesday staged in front of the home office of James and Associates, the property management company.
A usually peaceful street corner was turned into call to action with approximately two dozen resident carrying signs blasting Ann James, the property manager, and her team.
“They don’t follow the rules that they set up themselves,” said Tim Forrester, who has lived in the mobile home park for three years.
James wasn’t home at the time, but after catching wind that residents were planning the rally, she had the security team hired to protect park view mobile estates, monitor the her home and the protest, residents said.
“But not to protect us from murders, drug deals or enforcing the laws that she’s supposed to enforce,” said Paul Washington, who has lived in the mobile home park for two years.
In order to live in Parkview, residents must be 55 years of age or older, but members of the community said a younger crowd is settling in, and transients are posing as caregivers, which has led to prostitution and burglaries, residents said.
Last month, 74-year-old park resident Ken Moody was murdered.
His body found on the side of the road in an unicorporated area of Sky Valley.
A week later, two men were arrested in the park on drugs and weapons charges.
“All these people driving in an out and walking in and out of the park, we don’t know who they are, and the ultimate happened — a murder,” said Holly Leonard, who has lived in the mobile home park for eight years. “That’s disgusting and terrible in a senior park.
In a statement released through their attorneys, James and Associates said, “what happened to mr. moddy was an isolated incident that reportedly occurred 25 miles away in Sky Valley.”
“There is no reason for Parkview residents to be concerned for their safety,” the statement continued.
Jason Brokken, 45, of Palm Springs was arrested at Ken Moody’s home after Moody was found dead.
