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Kayla Stewart, 47, Lisha Lee, 36, and Valerie Nabors, 26, were arrested at the First American Title Office at 303 West Court Street, San Bernardino, California when they forged the signature of a 72-year-old female victim on a Grant Deed using a fictitious Louisiana driver’s license.

The elderly victim resides in Georgia and owns a home on the 1500 block of West Flores Street, San Bernardino, California that she was trying to sell. When the victim’s son was listing her property for sale, he discovered that her property had been fraudulently transferred to a female subject with no connection to the victim’s family. The forged deed had been filed and recorded at the San Bernardino County Recorder’s Office and the suspects were attempting to refinance the property for $160,000 through First American Title Company in Santa Cruz, California.

Investigators contacted Glenn Jackson of the First American Title Office in San Bernardino and arranged for the suspects to come into the business office and sign another Grant Deed. District Attorney Investigators, posing as office workers, met with Kayla Stewart at the title office.