North Dakota Man Assaults Friend Then Scams Insurer A North Dakota man was arrested and charged with insurance fraud, according to an announcement by the state’s insurance department. Weston Aho was charged with insurance fraud, a class C felony, and …
A city councilman is resigning following charges he filed a false accident report and repeatedly changed his explanation for what happened. Lebanon councilman Tony Matula, 59, faces charges including insurance fraud, false reports to law enforcement and hit and run, …
Washington Insurance Fraud Most Wanted Suspect Arrested in California Leandre Garner, one of Washington state’s insurance fraud most wanted suspects, was arrested in California and jailed. With bail set at $10,00, Garner’s trial is set for April 21 in Pierce …
Two men were arrested for insurance fraud last week, according to an announcement by North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin. Department of Insurance criminal investigators accuse Timothy Jay Styons of filing a false police report and making a fraudulent insurance …
A 38-year-old Washington woman who told firefighters how she dropped her young son to safety before escaping a house fire herself has admitted setting the fire and making a false insurance claim. The News Tribune reports that Melinda Sayers pleaded …
A jury recently found a Honolulu man, Yun Fei Tang, 46, guilty of insurance fraud and attempted theft. He is currently out on bail and awaiting sentencing in June. Tang faces up to five years imprisonment for each count and …
Florida state law enforcement officials announced they arrested a police officer and another man for allegedly conspiring to defraud an insurer by purposely destroying a pleasure boat. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said they arrested Melbourne Police Department Sergeant …
A Newark, N.J., police officer who had his sport utility vehicle set on fire and then filed a false insurance claim has been spared a prison term. Essex County prosecutors say 41-year-old Johnathan Taylor was sentenced Monday to serve three …
A Newark, N.J, police officer has admitted filing a false insurance claim after his vehicle was declared stolen and found torched. The Essex County prosecutor’s office says Johnathan R. Taylor pleaded guilty Friday to insurance fraud. The 42-year-old Plainfield resident …
A central New Jersey man who claimed his barn was destroyed by Superstorm Sandy has been indicted on insurance fraud charges. Seventy-three-year-old Farouk Soliman of Little Silver also faces theft by deception charges in the indictment handed up Monday by …