Lindsey is alleging that the arrest stems from her parents “challenging wrongful credit card charges made by The Palace Company, aka Palace Resorts,” saying the couple is “being held captive.”
Stu Mollrich, an attorney representing the Akeos, told PEOPLE the couple had a membership with Florida-based company Palace Elite Resorts — which has multiple locations in Mexico — and argued the company “breached their contact and failed to provide the goods and services they had been charged for”
The Akeos had purchased a timeshare membership with Palace for $6,923 per month for a period of 11 years in 2021, Mollrich said, but after flagging the alleged breach to American Express, the couple had $116,587.84 kicked back to their card.
Christy would later become moderator of a Facebook group full of former Palace guests disgruntled by the company’s “heavy-handed and deceptive business practices,” Mollrich said.
In March, the couple traveled back to Cancún and were arrested upon arrival at the airport, the attorney noted.
Lindsey’s brother, Michael, told CBS News, “This is completely crazy to us because, again, this was over and done with, nothing that should have even escalated to this.” Michael claimed his parents were “able to prove” the resort had “breached their contract.”
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