SAN DIEGO -- Authorities finally caught up to a man who allegedly used multiple identities as part of a real estate scam, the 10News I-Team reported.

Tyler Adams is a man of many faces and names. He's also known as: Kevin Schoolcraft, a native of Pennsylvania; Kevin Kennedy, a University of Hawaii law student; Michael Wittman, also a University of Hawaii student; and Kevin Kennedy, a Yale law student.

Adams is accused of purchasing many homes that he never paid for, including five San Diego properties. According to court documents, Adams got the credit to buy the downtown San Diego condos by allegedly stealing his parents' identities and their credit. Adams then rented out the properties, collected deposits and collected rent, and just kept all the money for himself, court documents said. He is accused of stealing in excess of $3 million.

"I thought he was a great guy. Now he's a crook," said J. C. Harrison, who said he was approached by Adams for a mortgage re-finance. Harrison declined a re-finance, but Adams did it anyway, increasing the homeowner's monthly payments 100 percent.

"I never refinanced my property," said Harrison.

Adams' changing persona seemed to work, except for a few missteps, like the mistake on his Yale law student ID. The word "signature" is misspelled with an "i" instead of an "a."

"He's a con man, sociopath who had no regard for his victim's property," said Hawaii prosecutor Chris Van Marter.

In December, Adams was indicted by a grand jury in Hawaii for passing $130,000 in bad checks. He was accompanied by a woman he identified as his Russian wife.

Before Hawaiian authorities could capture him, Adams was arrested in San Diego and now sits in a Vista jail facing multiple felony charges, including grand theft of personal property, making false financial statements and identity theft.

If convicted, Adams faces 25 years in prison.