I am a little confused at how this happened but I need some help on how to deal with it.
Last year I got out of prison, started my life over and lived with my adult daughter until I could get money to move from there. The best I could do with my background was an old motel that had been converted into weekly efficiency apartments. That was in August 2006. I worked real hard and in November 2006, had my daughter returned to me from foster care. The efficiency was small for us, but I did not have the money to move into a bigger place yet. Due to some health problems, I got behind in my weekly rent payment but the owner and the manager worked with me and told me that I could clean rooms to deduct from the balance (which at that time was $450) and also make payments of $20 weekly. In March, we were able to rent a home and I went to the manager and told him of this and asked if he would give me a good reference even though I was behind on rent. He said yes. That weekend, around 5pm, I started moving stuff into the old place.
Here is where is gets complicated. The manager wanted to dated me the whole time I lived there, however, I had a boyfriend. The manager kept hassling me and my boyfriend said something to him a could of times when he was at my place. On March 14th I gave the manager a money order for $200 and he did not give me a reciept. I continued to ask him for the receipt on a daily basis, I asked the maintenance man if he could either get the receipt for me or talk to the manager to get it. I never got a receipt.
Two weeks after moving, the manager emailed my daughter and stated that I had to pay the balance in full and it was now $850 and the owner was going to press charged. I tried talking to the owner directly and she agreed to the $20 weekly payments. I continued to get $20 money orders and send them to the place certified so I would have record and I also repeatedly asked about the missing posting of my $200 payment.
I called the state attorneys office and the police department and they told me just to keep making payments. Then I got a letter from the place and in it, all of my money orders were returned, and I received a demand for payment of a substantial amount (no actual amount was stated however). I was also told that I would be prosecuted if I did not do this.
The apts do not collect sales tax and are required to file civil eviction procedures to remove a tenant from living there. There are several people who did not pay their rent on time and the balance was larger than what I owed, in fact one amount still owed is almost $2000, however, no one else has ever been prosecuted. The manager has sent harassing emails to my daughter, he was upset because I would not date him and I had several witnesses to this fact. I recently found out from the owner that when I moved out, the manager originally told the owners that I snuck out in the middle of the night, and did not tell anyone where I was moving to and I had my cell phone shut off. I have proof of this as well.
I am on probation and doing really good at living a good life now. However, last week, an arrest warrant came out for me for defrauding an innkeeper, in excess of $300, which makes it a felony, the balance that is listed has now jumped to $1000, I am out on bond but this has violated my probation and it will be any day that I will have to return to jail. I also lost my job due to not being able to bond out the first day.
I appreciated any help.

