‘She lives in heaven now’: FEMA delivers trailer to dead woman’s address

A FEMA trailer is delivered months after hurricanes hit Tampa Bay, dozens of miles from the hardest hit areas, to a property the I-Team has learned is registered to a dead woman.

A neighbor, who thought it would be put to better use in the hurricane-ravaged coastal region, contacted us and we started looking into it, hearing from the woman who applied for assistance and a legal expert who says putting the trailer there raises questions.

Watch full report from Adam Walser

Ava McLaurin and her husband moved to a home on a rural road outside Dade City last year, where they raise horses, cows and donkeys.

“I wanted space. I wanted animals. I grew up in Pinellas County,” McLaurin said.

Ava’s childhood home was in Shore Acres, 65 miles away…

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