TodayByrne faces foreclosure
Lender says former Cumberland County COO owes nearly $170,000 on Carlisle home; civil suit filed.
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Article RatingFormer Cumberland County chief operations officer John Byrne has defaulted on mortgage payments and faces foreclosure on his Carlisle home.
A civil complaint filed Monday by a Philadelphia law firm in the county Court of Common Pleas states that monthly payments on the residence at 142 S. West St. have not been made at all in 2008.
The plaintiff, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., said Byrne, 46, owes more than $168,000 on the mortgage, including more than $4,700 in interest from Dec. 1, 2007, through April 28, 2008.
Cumberland County Sheriff R. Thomas Kline was unable to locate Byrne during a search in May, according to court documents. Byrne no longer lives at the residence, and no forwarding address was on file at the post office, Kline said.
Hubert X. Gilroy, Byrne’s attorney, said his client is working with the mortgage company to resolve the situation.
“There’s no effort to skip out on anything,” Gilroy said this morning.
Creditors indicated the last reported address for Byrne as East Haven, Conn.
According to court documents, the plaintiff spoke with Byrne’s sister at the address, who stated he did not live there. She would not give her name and would not open the door to accept the foreclosure papers, court documents say.
Byrne did not return two phone calls made by a reporter to his cell phone seeking comment.
He was charged in December with assaulting his ex-fiancee and her son, charges he denies. That case has yet to come before the court.
As county chief operations officer, he was paid $93,000.
The commissioners appointed Dennis Marion to the position in April at a salary of $102,940.
