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Three Miami-area brothers who rose to the top of the luxury real estate industry were taken into custody by local and federal agents early Wednesday morning, several months after a series of lawsuits were filed against them involving disturbing allegations of drugging and abuse. sexual abuse of women.

Oren and Alon Alexander were awakened by joint task force members from the Miami Beach Police Department, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office and the FBI. The charges against the brothers were not immediately clear. Prosecutors said the arrest came after allegations of sexual assault on Miami Beach.

A third brother, Tal, was also taken into custody by federal agents. He is scheduled to appear in federal court on Wednesday at 1 p.m.

A press conference is also scheduled at the district attorney’s office at 1 p.m. There, Miami Beach police are expected to participate in a discussion about the arrests of Oren and Alon Alexander.

The arrests were first reported by real estate magazine The Real Deal, which claimed officers showed up at Oren Alexander’s Miami Beach home and ordered him out.

One or more of the brothers is facing at least four lawsuits in New York state court. The civil complaints are full of sordid details about two of the brothers, Oren and Tal, jet-setting real estate stars who over the past decade has brokered some of the most expensive housing deals in the country, from Miami to Manhattan.

Since the filing of these lawsuits in early summer, an attorney representing two of the women told the Miami Herald that another 40 women — including a dozen from the Miami area — have made allegations against one or more of the brothers.

Some of the alleged incidents took place decades ago, when the brothers attended the Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School near Aventura. New York personal injury attorney Evan Torgan told the Miami Herald in September that it is possible some of these cases could lead to additional lawsuits.