A seller in Wichita Kansas was arrested for something serious enough to have to sell his homes. 5 homes had 10,999.00 in taxes due or they would be up for tax foreclosure / auction on the May 31rst.

Put in a camera that can't be reached from a standing position and have the person stealing arrested.

Then fail, lose money, get arrested or let the family divorce you.My suggestion, as usual, learn real estate before attempting do deal in real estate, then learn financing before trying to get creative in financing.

I also saw a arrest record around that time saying she was charged with harrasing communications. 

I'd like to add this:  an arrest is not a conviction, a statement made in divorce court is not an arrest. 

A lot of wholesalers have been fined and/or arrested in Ohio for wholesaling because the way they closed the deal it was against the law.

Have had situations where Tenants have killed themselves in the homes, a house where they found a grave site next to the home, one where they found a body part, a few drug arrests, a unstable guy that showed the judge he was unstable he was at a court hearing and the judge ordered up the swat team to help the local cop with possession.

Its not illegal, you won't get arrested. 

They CAN be arrested for brokering without a license though. 

I then created a model for him ( transactional funding) so that he could come into title on everything he was marketing and things were fine.. he then left our fold and went right back to his bad ways.. gets caught again this time he is arrested and thrown in jail on a Friday in Jackson MS not a place you want to spend a weekend in Jail... and was then banned from the industry for life.I have another vendor I fund here in Oregon .. he simply put a for sale sign in the yard of a home he did not own.. someone turns him in to the state.. 5k in legal fees  cease and desist and 5k fine later ..