Fraud Roundup

With Friends Like That…

On Oct. 31, Mirna Angelica Alfaro of Los Angeles was arrested on charges of selling automobile insurance without a license....

Dubious Duo Work the System

On Nov. 1, Bakersfield residents Lonzoe Richard Hart, 64, and Barbara Jean Cornelius, 52, were arrested on workers’ compensation fraud...

Pay to the Order Of

Elvira Marcela Santamaria of Baldwin Park, Calif., turned herself in to the Tulare Superior Court, Visalia Division, after learning a...

Shattered Dreams for 3 Arizona Men

An investigation by the Arizona Department of Insurance (DOI) Fraud Unit led to no-contest pleas last month in Maricopa County...

Sticking His Neck Out

On the night of Nov. 6, David Wayne Derr was arrested at his residence and booked into Sacramento County Jail....

Farmed Out for Fraud

On Nov. 1, a Tehama County Superior Court Judge sentenced former Red Bluff insurance agent David Michael Chene to nine...

It Pays to Be Honest

The Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) revoked the insurance agent license of a Gresham man, Allan E. Richard,...

His Crime Doesn’t Compute

Following a 17-month investigation, Evangelos Tsorakis of Elk Grove, Calif., was arrested at his residence yesterday on four felony counts...

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