Another Adverse Possession-Claiming Crackpot Gets Pinched After He Allegedly Hijacked Possession Of Vacant Homes By Replacing Door Locks, Then Rented Them Out To Unsuspecting Tenants

In San Antonio, Texas, KABB-TV Channel 29 reports:

• San Antonio police arrested a man accused of renting out homes he didn't even home and there could be as many seven victims out there.
  
  Police say Samuel Charles Perkins, 46, filed court documents with false information on October 8 and tried to claim homes through a legal maneuver called adverse possession. However, investigators say what he was doing is a crime.
  
  "That's what they're charging me with, adverse possession. Because I'm staking a claim on that property to protect that property from the thieves that's coming up from California and Louisiana," Perkins said Tuesday morning as he was being lead to a police car in handcuffs.
  
  
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  Garcia said Perkins broke off the locks on some homes and replaced them in order to rent out the properties.
  
  Police say at least one of his victims is elderly and the document filed with the county clerk's office lists two homes he attempted to claim on Bernadine St.
  
  Perkins said by claiming the properties, he's preventing them from being sold.
  
  
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  According to the Bexar County District Attorney's Office, Perkins has been to prison twice for numerous charges including aggravated robbery and burglary and he has several pending cases that the Elder Fraud Unit is reviewing.
  
  He was charged in connection with two alleged victims on Tuesday and is facing a count of exploitation of the elderly and two counts of theft and aggravated perjury.

Source: Man accused of renting out homes he didn't own.