An Oklahoma man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for insurance fraud.
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt announced that LaTroy Staglin was sentenced after being convicted on nine felony counts of submitting a false claim for insurance.
According to the AG’s office, Staglin operated under many aliases. He would wait in various store parking lots around the Oklahoma City metro area, and intentionally cause wrecks that resulted in the other party paying for his false insurance claim.
Many of Staglin’s victims were elderly, indicating that he may have been targeting them because of their age, the AG said.
Video surveillance from some parking lots showed that Staglin would drive up and down the aisles of parking lots looking for the opportunity to engage in an accident with someone reversing out of a parking spot. In many instances, the victims also stated that the damage to the vehicles that Staglin was driving did not match the damage that could have been caused in the parking lot wrecks.
Staglin repeated these tactics with an increasing frequency from August 2014 to January 2015.
He was also convicted and sentenced to a prison term in 2009 for committing the same type of fraud.
Staglin was investigated by the Workers’ Compensation, Social Security, and Insurance Fraud Unit of the attorney general’s office. The unit investigates and prosecutes fraud on the part of claimants, doctors, attorneys and insurance companies. The unit also provides education and training about workers’ compensation fraud.
Source: Oklahoma AG’s Office
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