Federal investigators have arrested three people accused of stealing a vacant Concord lot from a local couple, selling it to unsuspecting buyers using fake IDs, and pocketing nearly $500,000 in proceeds.

Kyon James, 44, of Middleboro, Massachusetts; Moshe Levi, 57, of Carrollton, Texas; and Bradley Beague, 41, of Somerset, New Jersey, were taken into custody on Thursday, July 16, 2026, according to a WBZ-TV I-Team report published Wednesday, July 23, 2026. Levi faces charges of wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy. James and Beague are each charged with money laundering conspiracy.

The case centers on Omar and Halla Jaraki, a Concord couple who discovered in 2024 that scammers had impersonated them using fake IDs, sold their vacant land for far less than its value, and kept the cash. The Jarakis learned of the theft only after calling town hall about a missing tax bill. By then, the buyers had already begun building a house on the property.

"They stole our dream," Omar Jaraki told WBZ-TV in 2024, when the couple first went public with their story. "They stole our property, they took a mortgage on it. They're building a house on it."

According to a September 2024 blog post by the Jarakis' attorney, Richard Vetstein of Vetstein Law Group in Framingham, the scammers used a counterfeit South Carolina driver's license and passport, a forged deed and notary stamp, and a fake email address impersonating the real owner. Those documents were enough to fool a local real estate agent and two real estate attorneys into proceeding to closing. Vetstein wrote that the thieves made off with nearly $500,000 in stolen sale proceeds from a property he described as worth roughly $1 million.

The fraud scheme began as early as 2023, when a scammer posing as the property's true owner contacted a local real estate agent about selling the lot, according to Vetstein's account.

The FBI opened an investigation after the Jarakis reported the theft. The federal case now ties the Concord property to similar schemes involving land in Georgia, Indiana, and Tennessee.

Vetstein told WBZ-TV on Wednesday, July 23, 2026, that the family is relieved. "We're very grateful that they appear to have found the perpetrators," he said. "It's been a long road. Nearly two years now."

The Jarakis have also filed a civil lawsuit related to the fraud; that case remains ongoing. No court dates for the criminal proceedings have been announced. The current status of the property, including the house under construction, has not been publicly disclosed.