Crackpot Who Openly Admits Using Forged Documents To Hijack Title To Homes Now On The Loose In SW Florida; Cops Investigating

In Cape Coral, Florida, WINK News reports:

• A family from Indiana thought they had found their perfect Florida home and were ready to move in… until a realtor realized it had been in the hands of Lemroyal James.
  
  “We were elated at the idea that this would be able to be our home,” said Paul Irminger, a husband and father of four who was looking forward to his family’s move into their new Coral Lakes Home.
  
  The property had been foreclosed by Wells Fargo bank, but he knew it would make a beautiful home for his new baby and three other young children. But then Irminger received a concerning call from his realtor.
  
  “I heard from the realtor and she told me ‘We have a situation,'” he said.
  
  That situation was Lemroyal James.
  
  James is what some, like real estate attorney Jeff Rice, would call a fraud — a total conman. That’s because James admits to claiming the titles of foreclosed homes that he does not own.
  
  “Whoever has done this has gone and checked the foreclosure files and has sought foreclosed properties,” Rice said. “This is a fraud.”
  
  But that’s not how James sees it. He said he is trying to prove a point to banks, who he said required a bailout and shouldn’t own the titles to homes.
  
  “I did it because it was a message to be sent,” James said. “Banks have no say so because we bailed you out.”
  
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  What James is doing is what title examiners call a “wild deed.” [...] James said he is fighting a civil rights battle. He created the Civil Rights Banking Commission, which he continues use to claim titles on homes he believes banks can’t legally own.
  
  “My intentions are never fraud. My intentions are the law say I can do this, so let’s go to court,” James said. “That’s all I ask, let’s go to court. If you want your property, come to court.”
  
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  The Cape Coral Police Department is investigating Lemroyal James for selling [] two vacant and foreclosed Lee County homes.
  
  His interview with WINK News was in a foreclosed home in Orlando.
  
  It was furnished.
  
  “You see the house where you are at? Same thing happened. Fannie Mae owns it. Well, Fannie Mae don’t own it. You do the history, Fannie Mae don’t own this property. But I’m here,” James said.
  
  James was arrested in 2003 in Orange County for burglary. He claimed he owned the home at the time because he successfully filed for a quit claim deed. James was also arrested in 2015 for filing false statements and fraudulent documents, which is a felony. Investigators said he filed claims on dozens of homes in Georgia and James could face up to five years in prison.

For the story, see Florida man uses quit claim to fraud homeowners, pick fights.