A Georgia man was arrested last month after a joint effort between investigators in the Fraud Unit at the Georgia Department of Insurance and multiple state agencies discovered he was allegedly operating a chop shop in Elbert County.
Officers with the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office, the Georgia Department of Corrections, the Northern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office, the Comer Police Department, the Oglethorpe County Sheriff’s Office, and the National Insurance Crime Bureau contributed to the investigation, which led to the discovery of hundreds of disassembled vehicles, including trucks, buses and heavy equipment, and thousands of diesel auto parts throughout the property owned by Craig Frank Adams, 38, of Athens, Georgia.
Items seized from the location were valued at several million dollars. In addition to the site where the chop shop operation was taking place, investigators raided a separate location in Elbert County and found a number of stolen items connected to Adams, as well as 19 guns determined to be in his possession.
Adams was arrested on April 10 and faces the following charges:
- 19 Counts of Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon
- 1 Count of Felony Probation Violation
- 1 Count of Theft by Receiving Stolen Property
- 1 Count of Owning or Operating a Chop Shop
After his property was seized and warrants were taken out for his arrest, Adams turned himself in to Athens-Clarke County authorities. He was then transported to Elbert County and booked into the Elbert County Detention Center.
Source: Georgia Department of Insurance
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