On April 10, when Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputies arrived at a Lake Worth address to evict 63-year-old Deborah Megna, the ailing woman had to be helped onto a stretcher and taken to a nearby hospital.
Hours later Megna got herself discharged and made her way to a motel. The next morning her furniture and other big personal items stood outside the spacious house on Stonehurst Circle — except for her car, which had been towed away.
New owner First York Capital LLC of Boca Raton had achieved full possession. The morning after the eviction, Megna’s advocate Gail Waitkin said in an affidavit, the owner’s agents prevented her from retrieving jewelry and other valuables, including dental implants that cost $35,000…