Police in DeKalb County say a man tried to snatch a Decatur family’s home out from under them by using a fake name and a forged deed to move the property into someone else’s hands.
The case centers on a house on the 3200 block of Columbia Woods Drive, where county records show a deed recorded in January 2024 transferred the title to an alias. That filing has now become Exhibit A in an alleged deed-theft scheme and has put fresh focus on how easy it once was to record property transfers in Georgia before new identification and e-filing rules kicked in.
Investigators identified the suspect as Castor Tyrone Winfrey. He is charged with first-degree forgery and related counts for allegedly creating and filing false documents. According to authorities, Winfrey used the alias Ayomide-Aberash Bey, and a deed recorded on Jan. 24, 2024 appears to show the late Katie Williams signing over the title for zero dollars, even though Williams’ death certificate lists her date of death as February 2017…