CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A Tennessee woman has been sentenced for committing a wire fraud scheme involving filing fake property deeds for residential real estate in North Carolina.
According to Russ Ferguson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, between October 2022 and August 2024, 33-year-old Alicia England of Chattanooga, TN, engaged in a wire fraud scheme by filing fake deeds for residential real estate located in North Carolina and elsewhere.
Court documents and proceedings show England stole the identity of several victims, alive and deceased, and used their personal identifying information to open bank accounts, file false deeds, and enter into real estate sales for properties she did not actually own. In some cases, she forged notaries’ signatures, while in others she used fake identification…