A Florida man was arrested for trying to sell North Carolina farmland that he did not own.
Kellie Brian Butler of Orlando forged North Carolina real estate documents – including a “Working with Real Estate Agents Disclosure (For Sellers)” form and an “Exclusive Right to Sell Listing Agreement (Vacant Lot/Land)” – and listed a farmland property in Belvoir that he did not have the right to sell. He also used a fake ID and digital signatures belonging to the property owner to pretend he was the owner.
Butler arranged with realtor Linwood Ross Langley Jr. of United Real Estate Tri-County to sell for $344,500 last April.
Butler is charged with multiple felonies – forgery, two counts of common law uttering, attempt to obtain property by false pretense, identity theft – and misdemeanor-level forgery. He is being held in North Carolina’s Pitt County Detention Center under a $500,000 secured bond.
