RANCHO CUCAMONGA -- The San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office has filed criminal charges against six recipients of public housing subsidies who allegedly allowed relatives to live with them without authorization.
The charges against the Rancho Cucamonga residents were filed April 4 in West Valley Superior Court. Each defendant was charged with two felonies: defrauding a public housing authority and perjury.
The six defendants are: Ahlam Awad, 34; Una Jean Wolfinbarger, 57; Raymond Hugh Wolfinbarger, 53; Shaire Lynn Wheeler, 59; Bethany Ester Barker, 26; and Valerie Marie Machado, 28.
The Wolfinbargers lived at the Rancho Verde Village Apartments at 8837 Grove Ave., according to police reports contained in the defendants' court file.
The rest of the defendants lived at Woodhaven Manor Apartments at Haven and Lemon avenues, according to police reports.
All of the people charged in the case received financial assistance from the San Bernardino County Housing Authorities, which distributes money from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Recipients of housing assistance funds are required to disclose in their application who will living with them, according to police reports.
The six people charged in the case allowed relatives or boyfriends -- several of whom were parolees -- to live with them without the required prior disclosure, according to police reports.