Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011 | 5:45 p.m.
A 43-year-old woman who pleaded guilty in an alleged robo-signing scheme was found dead Monday at her northwest valley home, authorities said.
Tracy Lawrence, a Las Vegas notary, was scheduled to appear in court at 8:30 a.m. Monday for her sentencing hearing after she pleaded guilty Nov. 14 to one count of notarizing the signature of an individual not in her presence, according to Jennifer Lopez, public information officer for the Nevada Attorney General’s Office. Notary fraud carries a potential jail sentence of one year and a fine of up to $2,000.
Lawrence had been charged in a larger case investigated by the attorney general’s mortgage fraud task force, according to Chief Deputy Attorney General John Kelleher.
The task force investigated tens of thousands of allegedly fraudulent foreclosure documents filed with the Clark County recorder’s office between 2005 and 2008, officials said.
When Lawrence failed to show up for court, the attorney general’s office sent an investigator to check on Lawrence at her home at the 4600 block of North Rainbow Boulevard, Lopez said.
Investigators found the woman dead about 11:30 a.m. and notified Metro Police, Lopez said.
The Clark County coroner’s office said a determination on the cause of death is pending results of a toxicology report that will take six to eight weeks.
Metro’s homicide unit is investigating the case, but the death is not being considered a homicide, police said.
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