Brian Pelech, 33, of Ontario, Calif., was arrested and charged with two felony counts of insurance fraud. In Aug. 1999, Pelech allegedly slipped between scaffolds resulting in injury to his right knee requiring surgery, while working as a bricklayer. A …
Gyan Singh, 55, of Sacramento, Calif., was arrested on one count of insurance fraud. Singh was allegedly involved in an auto accident with his 1997 Ford truck on Dec. 7, 2001. Investigators claimed that Singh reported to insurance carrier CSE …
Ron Stahr, 40, of Hawthorne, Calif. and Michele Morlet, 24, of Whittier, Calif., surrendered themselves to CDI investigators in Los Angeles on arrest warrants which charged them with filing false insurance claims. In the fall of 2001, Morlet and Stahr …
A licensed agent and owner of First Class Insurance Agency, Robert Franklin, 35, of Los Angeles, was arrested and charged with two felony counts of grand theft. Franklin allegedly sold fraudulent insurance policies to consumers and collected premiums without ever …
A search warrant was served by CDI investigators to former insurance broker Jimmie Earl Jackson, of Vallejo, Calif. Jackson was operating Jaxon Insurance Services in Vallejo. CDI revoked Jackson’s insurance license for allegedly accepting premium money from a client and …
The California Department of Insurance (CDI) arrested a Redding man on six felony counts of insurance fraud, six counts of grand theft and one count of conspiracy. Richard W. Powell, M.D., 43, was arrested at his office in Redding and …
A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) civilian employee plead no contest to one count of felony insurance fraud for allegedly filing a false workers’ comp claim. Richard Montellano Argomaniz was arrested following an investigation by the CDI’s Fraud …
A Long Beach, Calif., woman surrendered on an outstanding warrant related to felony insurance fraud charges. Yvonne Boyce allegedly slipped and fell while on the job in 1998 injuring her shoulder. She proceeded to receive workers’ comp temporary total disability …
Noel DeSota of Orange County was arrested by CDI fraud investigators and sentenced to serve 60 days in Orange County Jail, complete 120 hours of community service, three years probation, and pay a $200 court fine. DeSota worked for Creative …
An investigation involving Phil-Am Auto Body Shop in Oakland led to seven additional arrests in Alameda County. Domingo Combe, 80; Amadeo Comilang, 49; Nolasco Depadua, 45; Rodolfo Eleno, 60; Luthgarda Galvan, 44; Gracia Mangrobang, 65; and Ramon Nobela, 49; are …
