Susan Jeanette Hobson, 40, surrendered to investigators from the California Department of Insurance (CDI) on three felony counts of insurance fraud and one felony count of perjury. In February 1996, the Sacramento woman allegedly tripped in the parking lot of …
On Oct. 31, Mirna Angelica Alfaro of Los Angeles was arrested on charges of selling automobile insurance without a license. The 30-year-old woman was charged with three counts of acting in the capacity of an insurance broker and solicitor without …
On Nov. 1, Bakersfield residents Lonzoe Richard Hart, 64, and Barbara Jean Cornelius, 52, were arrested on workers’ compensation fraud charges. Hart and Cornelius were booked into Kern County Jail on 23 felony counts following an 18-month investigation by the …
The efforts of FBI agents and Los Angeles police officers have led to the arrest of 12 people involved in a highly organized fraud ring that staged auto accidents to steal millions of dollars from insurance companies. The arrests were …
Elvira Marcela Santamaria of Baldwin Park, Calif., turned herself in to the Tulare Superior Court, Visalia Division, after learning a five-count auto insurance fraud and grand theft warrant had been issued for her arrest. The 22-year-old woman was hired in …
On the night of Nov. 6, David Wayne Derr was arrested at his residence and booked into Sacramento County Jail. On July 1, 1998, Derr claimed to have injured his neck while working for Atlas Disposal in Sacramento. He alleged …
On Nov. 1, a Tehama County Superior Court Judge sentenced former Red Bluff insurance agent David Michael Chene to nine years in state prison. Chene was also ordered to pay $273,000 in restitution plus 10 percent interest per year. Chene …
An investigation by the Arizona Department of Insurance (DOI) Fraud Unit led to no-contest pleas last month in Maricopa County Superior Court by three owners of Phoenix, Ariz.-based Advantage Auto Glass LLC in connection with indictments charging them with defrauding …
Mark Dwayne Jackson, a paroled felon, was recently arrested in a joint Cal/OSHA sting operation conducted by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Major Crimes Unit. Jackson allegedly victimized several minority-owned small businesses in the L.A. County area by posing …
Following a 17-month investigation, Evangelos Tsorakis of Elk Grove, Calif., was arrested at his residence yesterday on four felony counts of insurance fraud and one felony count of perjury. The 47-year-old man was booked into the Sacramento County Jail and …
