Imagine fighting to reclaim a stolen deed for years — only to find your newly recovered land is being used as an illegal dumping ground.
That’s what a Texas couple says they’re going through. Shannon Bleau and her husband, Gerald, found out that her grandfather, who died in 2023, owned 11 acres of land running along the Trinity River in Dallas (1).
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Unfortunately, they also found out that, only a few weeks before her grandfather died of a stroke (2), the deed to the property had been signed over to a trust. Now a man named Kyle Boyd is accused of using a forged document to gain ownership of the property. He also allegedly let truckers pay him to dump their trash on the property, against Texas law.
With the help of an attorney, James Zoys, the couple successfully voided Boyd’s deed on April 9. But damage was already done — both to the property and to Trinity River, which supplies nearly half of the state’s drinking water (3)…