A grand jury in Ohio’s Mahoning County on July 6 indicted seven people accused of taking part in a criminal enterprise that burned buildings and faked burglaries to fraudulently collect more than a million dollars from insurance companies, the state’s attorney general announced.
According to a media release from Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and Mahoning County Prosecutor Paul Gains, the indictment includes charges of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity in Mahoning, Trumbull and Ashtabula counties from 2011 to 2017.
Tricia Floyd, aka Patricia Floyd, 69, of Youngstown, is accused of being the ring leader. The others indicted are:
- Kyrene Rodriquez, aka Kyrene Moirai Rinard Floyd, 36, of Youngstown
- Heather Marie Kellar, formerly known as James Kellar, 48, of Niles
- Theodore Edward Dozier Wynn, aka Ted Wynn, 29, of Youngstown
- Juan Rodriguez, aka Johnny Rodriguez, 32, of Youngstown
- Christopher J. Gibboney, 29, of Girard
- Jessica Gonzalez, 51, of Youngstown
The case was investigated by the Youngstown Police Department, Ashtabula County Sheriff’s Office, Ohio State Fire Marshal, U.S Postal Inspection Service, Secret Service and Social Security Inspector General. It is being prosecuted by Mahoning County Prosecutor and the Ohio Attorney General’s Special Prosecutions Section.
The crimes alleged include:
- Burning several buildings owned by group members.
- Defrauding insurers, including Allstate Insurance, Farmers Insurance and Nationwide Insurance.
- Changing one-dollar bills into twenties, fifties and one hundreds.
- Hiding from the Social Security Administration a mineral-rights windfall so that more than $30,000 in benefits could be collected.
- Burglarizing a home intending to destroy evidence about the group’s crimes.
A copy of the indictment is available on the AG’s website.
Indictments are criminal allegations. Defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.
Source: Ohio AG’s Office
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