Mark Alan Yoder, Bank and Mail Fraud, Florida 2023

A Martin County man has been convicted of bank and mail fraud schemes, which involved harassing police officers and obstructing civil lawsuits.

Mark Alan Yoder, 55, of Hobe Sound, was convicted on all counts of the indictment, including five counts of bank fraud and four counts of mail fraud. Yoder faces a statutory maximum sentence of up to 30 years in prison and/or a $1,000,000 fine.

The schemes began after Yoder received a traffic citation from a Tequesta Police Department officer on October 18, 2010. Yoder objected to the ticket and sent a succession of fraudulent formal demands and notices to the officer and the Tequesta Police Department, claiming they owed him $150,000 in damages.

Yoder also sent similar demands to officers and executives of the bank that was foreclosing upon his home. Not long after the final judgment of foreclosure was entered in the state court, Yoder filed a fraudulent mechanic’s lien against the bank’s property, falsely claiming that he was owed thousands of dollars for his maintenance of the home prior to the foreclosure.

Yoder renewed the fraudulent mechanic’s lien, with successive filings, in 2014 and 2015. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Theodore Cooperstein and Kerry Baron.

The conviction was announced by Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office.

A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled. Sentencing will be imposed by Senior United States District Judge Paul C. Huck in Fort Pierce.

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