North Carolina Insurance coverage protection Chief Research Arrests in Deer, Storm Claims

A Charlotte man has been arrested on a felony value of insurance coverage protection fraud for allegedly falsely claiming to an insurer that his car was hit by a deer, in response to North Carolina Insurance coverage protection Commissioner Mike Causey.

Causey’s Division of Insurance coverage protection’s Authorized Investigations Division moreover arrested a grandmother, mother and grandson trio, who investigators allege made fairly a couple of false claims on their rental property protection.

In accordance with the actual investigation brokers, Daniel Alston Holmes suggested Peak Property and Casualty his car had been hit by a deer when it had really been involved in a hit-and-run accident. In accordance with the arrest warrants, the offense occurred on Sept. 12, 2023. In accordance with Causey, Holmes was arrested on Jan. 30 in Gaston County and launched on a $8,000 secured bond.

The arrest obtained right here shortly after a South Carolina woman was charged with claiming a deer caused damage to her car. Nonetheless investigators determined {{that a}} {{photograph}} she submitted pre-dated the hurt declare and the insurance coverage protection protection safety date.

Throughout the North Carolina rental protection circumstances, officers acknowledged Annie Stafford Wagner and Falecia Vernell Wagner, every of Winston-Salem, and Trayvon DeQuan Wagner of Extreme Degree. have been arrested.

Annie and Falecia Wagner have been every charged with insurance coverage protection fraud and buying property by false pretense.

Trayvon Wagner was charged with 5 counts of insurance coverage protection fraud, 4 counts of attempting to amass property by false pretense, two counts of aiding and abetting, one rely of buying property by false pretense, one rely of widespread regulation uttering and one rely of widespread regulation forgery. All 14 prices are felonies. He was moreover charged with one rely of misdemeanor fraud.

In accordance with brokers with the Division of Insurance coverage protection’s Authorized Investigations Division, the Wagners — a grandmother, mother and grandson trio— made fairly a couple of false claims on their State Farm Insurance coverage protection rental property protection, along with false claims involving meals spoilage, hurt to a television, and kit malfunction at their properties, some they claimed was on account of storm hurt. Trayvon Wagner moreover allegedly submitted various of these requests for hurt beneath assumed names or identities and assisted the alternative two on their false claims.

In accordance with the arrest warrants, the NC offenses occurred on Dec. 7, 2023, Dec. 20, 2023, March 21, 2024, July 23, 2024 and Aug. 24, 2024.

Causey acknowledged Annie and Falecia Wagner have been served with jail summons on Jan. 31. Officers acknowledged Trayvon Wagner was already in custody on earlier prices and is being held beneath a $55,000 secured bond for prices in every Forsyth and Guilford counties.

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