Jenna Dean's friends were shocked when the 23-year-old wife and mother posted photos of herself and her family at their new $1,395,000, 7,000-square-feet home mansion with the two-story Corinthian columns on 240 acres in Keystone Heights.

"It's amazing ... way better than you made it sound!" one said. "I'm totally jealous!"

Most people would be with six bedrooms, double two-car garages, spiral staircases and a swimming pool.

"How do you guys find such amazing places?" another friend asked.

"Takes years of looking and harassing banks about their foreclosures," Dean responded. "I should start my own business."

The Deans twice changed the locks and photos of the family in the home's swimming pool were posted to Jenna Dean's Facebook page.

However, according to the Clay County Sheriff's Office, what it took was forgery and deceit.

Dean and her husband, Justin Kyle Dean, turned themselves in to Clay County deputies Dec. 8 on charges of unlawful filing, uttering a forged instrument and grand theft.

The Deans were released on bond.

In September, the Clay County Sheriff's Office was contacted by an attorney who completes real estate transactions for Ameris Bank.

The attorney said the Deans filed a fake quit-claim deed with the Clay County Clerk of Courts and the property had not been sold, according to the police report.

A quit-claim deed is used to transfer property rights from one person to another.

The fraudulent deed featured the forged signatures of three employees of Ameris Bank.

Another couple, both physicians, bought the home for $1.1 million.

The Deans had been running a horse shoeing and grooming business out of Lawtey for the last two years called J.D. Farrier Services.

On Dec. 1, the company's Facebook page displayed a post that read:

"With great happiness and sadness, I will no longer being shoeing/trimming horses in Florida," according to the post. "I have a job offer out of state that I have accepted."

Clifford Davis: (904) 359-4207