After 2+ Year Investigation, Suspected Home Title Hijacker Gets Pinched By Cops On Multiple Grand Theft, Fraud Charges; Suspect Allegedly Used Forged Deeds To Pilfer Properties; Both Homeowners & Unwitting Notaries Whose Names Appeared On Bogus Documents Left Equally Perplexed

In West Palm Beach, Florida, The Palm Beach Post reports:

• With the help of forged quitclaim deeds, a Boynton Beach man has been scooping up properties in and around the city for years, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
  
  Roody Antion Silverain, 38, told deputies he bought properties well below their appraised values with the intent to fix them up.
  
  The supposed home sellers, though, told deputies those they’d never heard of Silverain, or signed any quitclaim deeds.
  
  Deputies spent more than two years investigating Silverain, according to sheriff’s office records. Early Wednesday [Sept. 14], they arrested the Boynton man on multiple counts of grand theft and fraud.
  
  Deputies first met Silverain in August 2014 after a woman said he’d filed a fraudulent quitclaim deed on her property near Boynton.
  
  Silverain told deputies he snagged the suburban Boynton home, valued at nearly $400,000, for $3,000. The woman’s ex-husband, he told deputies, agreed to the sale and signed the paperwork.
  
  But that man no longer owned the home, according to a sheriff’s office report, and said he’d never heard of Silverain.
  
  The story repeated at least two other times — once with a home south of Southeast 23rd Avenue, and again with a home west of Florida’s Turnpike, off Lyons Road.
  
  Additional deputy interviews with Silverain led to contradicting narratives and muddled details.
  
  He told deputies he had one guy handling paperwork, but couldn’t provide contact information because the man switched emails and phone numbers each time they spoke.
  
  The people who supposedly notarized the documents were as perplexed by the deeds as the homeowners, according to a sheriff’s office report.
  
  In June, the sheriff’s office filed charges against Silverain. Business records show he owns a roofing contracting company,Powermind Global Service, Inc.

Source: PBSO: Man forged multiple quitclaim deeds on Boynton homes.