Convictions
On 02 February 2021, in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County (CR 20-69), Angela Toney entered a plea of Guilty to one count of Fraudulent Insurance Acts (Class D Felony). She received one year Suspended Imposition of Sentence, a $250 fine, and was ordered to pay court costs. The sentence was issued pursuant to Act 346. On 21 January 2020, Angela Toney presented a fictitious insurance document to the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, in Perryville.
On 08 January 2021, Terry Wyatt paid $50,000 in restitution and was sentenced to 120 months in the Arkansas Department of Corrections with 60 months suspended (60 months to serve) for the 01 July 2020, plea of guilty in Faulkner County Circuit Court (CR 17-207) to one count of Theft of Property $25,000 or greater (Class B Felony), three counts of Theft of Property greater than $5,000, but less than $25,000 (Class C Felony), one count of Theft by Receiving $25,000 or greater (Class B Felony), one count of Theft by Receiving $5,000 or less, but greater than $1,000 (Class D Felony), and one count of Criminal Attempt Theft of Property $25,000 or greater (Class C Felony). In 2014, Terry Wyatt owned a Nautique Ski boat which became damaged and totaled after purchase. He apparently did not have it insured at the time. He fictitiously had the boat transferred to a co-conspirator and had him take out an insurance policy through Allstate Insurance on the totaled ski boat, sight unseen, for an agreed value of $70,000. Wyatt than arranged to have the boat taken from the co-conspirator’s home to Wyatt’s property where it was stripped of its engine, dropped in a hole, burned and buried. The co-conspirator later filed a claim with Allstate on the alleged theft and was paid in excess of $70,000, but the funds were ultimately routed to Terry Wyatt’s bank account. In May of 2016, Terry Wyatt owned a riding lawn mower and a power boat that were insured through ATX Insurance. He placed them near the road near his home and arranged to have a co-conspirator hit them with his car so that Wyatt could file a claim for insurance. He was paid in excess of $5,000 on this claim. In September 2014, Wyatt owned a Tahoe Ski Boat that he insured through Shelter Insurance. He arranged to fictitiously transfer it to another co-conspirator and then have it allegedly stolen from her property and taken to Wyatt’s property where it was stripped of its motor, dropped in a hole, burned and buried. He filed a claim with Shelter Insurance and was paid in excess of $20,000. Based on information received from one of the co-conspirators, a search warrant was executed on Wyatt’s property and during the search the two boats were found buried and burned as well as the two engines that were taken from the boats. In addition to the two burned boat hulls, three stolen trailers were recovered for which he was also charged.
On 11 January 2021, in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County (CR 20-1190), Shalisa Robinson entered a plea of Guilty to one count of Attempt to Commit Fraudulent Insurance Acts (Class A Misdemeanor). She was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay a $250 fine plus court costs. On 13 November 2019, Shalisa Robinson presented a fictitious insurance document to the Arkansas Department of Finance (DFA) and Administration Central Division. The clerk at DFA was unable to verify the document as valid. On 17 December 2019, an AIDCID investigator contacted the insurance company, USAA, and confirmed the card that Robinson presented was fictitious. Robinson stated that she purchased the card from an individual and gave a name and an address, but the individual had since moved.
On 29 December 2020, in the Circuit Court of Greene County (CR 2020-255), Cassandra Peterson entered a plea of Guilty to one count of Falsifying Business Records (Class A Misdemeanor). She was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay a $250 fine plus court costs. On 01 May 2019, Cassandra Peterson filed a claim with Progressive for damage to her 2016 Chevrolet Malibu, claiming that she struck an animal. Casandra claimed the loss occurred on 01 May 2019. During the claims process, photos were submitted by Peterson. Some of the photos depicting the damage to Peterson’s car contained metadata showing that the photos were taken in November of 2018, months before the accident and also months before she had taken out her automobile policy. When confronted with this information, on 29 May 2019, Peterson admitted in a recorded statement, that the accident did not happen on 01 May, but claimed another date earlier in 2019, still inconsistent with the metadata contained in the photographs.
On 05 January 2021, in the Circuit Court of Pulaski (CR 20-1178), Davonte Green entered a plea of Guilty to one count of Fraudulent Insurance Acts (Class D Felony). He was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay a $250 fine plus court costs. The sentence was issued pursuant to Act 346. On 03 December 2019, Davonte Green went to the JFK branch of the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration in Little Rock and provided a fictitious insurance card in the attempt to register his 2003 Chevrolet.
On 15 December 2020, in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County (CR 20-2731), Shavon Darrough entered a plea of guilty to one count of Fraudulent Insurance Act (Class D Felony). She received 18 months of supervised probation and was ordered to pay a $500 fine, plus court costs. The sentence was pursuant to Act 346. On 11 July 2018, Shavon Darrough attempted to register her vehicle at a DF&A office in Pulaski County by utilizing a fraudulent proof of insurance representing to be from Direct General Insurance.
On 7 December 2020, in the Circuit Court of Pulaski (CR 19-4194), Charles Ware (56 of North Little Rock) entered a plea of Guilty to one count of Fraudulent Insurance Acts (Class D felony). He was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay a $250 fine, plus court costs. The sentence was issued pursuant to Act 346. On 26 March 2018, Charles Ware went to the 7th Street branch of the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration and provided a fictitious insurance card in the attempt to register his 2003 Honda.
On 17 November 2020, in Pulaski County Circuit Court (CR20-825) Jomorrow Beene entered a plea of guilty to one count of Fraudulent Insurance Act (Class D Felony). She was sentenced to one year probation and ordered to pay a $500 fine plus court costs. Beene was sentenced pursuant to Act 346. On 06 November 2019, Jomorrow Beene was involved in an automobile accident in Pulaski County where she presented a fraudulent insurance card from Bristol West Insurance Company.
On 02 November 2020, in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County (CR 19-4430), Florida Sims entered a plea of guilty to one count of Fraudulent Insurance Act (Class D Felony). She received three years of suspended imposition of sentence (SIS) and was ordered to pay a $500 fine. She was also ordered to pay court costs. On 01 May 2018, during a period when her vehicle was not insured, Deneka Blood was involved in an auto accident. On 03 May 2018, Florida Sims contacted her insurance company, Farm Bureau, and added Ms. Blood’s vehicle to her policy alleging Sims owned the vehicle. On 05 May 2018, Sims called into Farm Bureau and filed a claim alleging that she and not Deneka Blood was driving the vehicle at the time of the accident and that the accident happened during a period when the vehicle was covered.
On 26 October 2020, in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County (CR 20-2447), Melvin Pinkney entered a plea of no contest to one count of Fraudulent Insurance Act (Class D Felony). He was sentenced to two years of supervised probation and was ordered to pay a $1000 fine (with $500 suspended) plus court costs. On 19 July 2018, Melvin Pinkney went to the DF&A office in Jacksonville, AR and attempted to register his vehicle. In the process he presented a fraudulent Direct General Insurance proof of insurance card.
On 7 October 2020, in the Circuit Court of Hot Spring County(30CR 20-79-2), Cristel Olive entered a plea of guilty to one count of Attempted Fraudulent Insurance Act (Class A Misdemeanor). She was sentenced to six months of probation and was ordered to pay a $500 fine plus court costs. Cristel Olive purchased an insurance policy on a 2012 Ford Fusion on 29 March 2019, at 4:07 PM from Progressive Insurance. On 17 April 2019, Cristel Olive made an insurance claim stating that her daughter had a car accident while driving the car on 13 April 2019. It was later determined that the accident actually happened on 29 March 2019, but earlier in the day then when she purchased insurance, and that she lied to the insurance company about when the accident happened so that it appeared to be a covered event.
On 2 October 2019, Walter Mack went to the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration and provided a fictitious insurance card in the attempt to register his 2000 Chevrolet Tahoe. On 5 October 2020, in the Circuit Court of Pulaski (CR 20-1245), Walter Mack (37 of North Little Rock) entered a plea of No Contest to one count of Fraudulent Insurance Acts (Class D Felony). He was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay a $250 fine plus court costs.
On 1 October 2020, in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County (CR 20-2278), Mary Etheridge entered a plea of guilty to one count of Fraudulent Insurance Act (Class D Felony). She received two years suspended imposition of sentence and was ordered to pay a $750 fine plus court costs. The sentence was issued pursuant to Act 346. On 4 November 2019, Mary Etheridge was in possession of a counterfeit Progressive Insurance identification card and used said card in an attempt to register a vehicle at the Arkansas Department of Motor Vehicles in Maumelle, Arkansas.
On 1 October 2020, in the Circuit Court of Pulaski, (CR 20-2363), Tiffeny Lampkin (30 of Little Rock) entered a plea of “No Contest” to one count of Fraudulent Insurance Acts (Class D felony).
She was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay a $500 fine plus court costs. The sentence was imposed pursuant to Act 346. On or about 31 December 2019, Tiffeny Lampkin went to the Southwest Division of the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration and provided a fictitious insurance card in the attempt to register her 2001 Chevrolet Tahoe.
On 14 September 2020, in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County, in CR 19-4370 Melissa Colbert entered a plea of guilty to one count of Fraudulent Insurance Act (Class D Felony). She received one year of supervised probation and was ordered to pay a $500 fine plus court costs. The sentence was pursuant to Act 346. On 31 August 2018 Melissa Colbert was in possession of a counterfeit Southern Insurance identification card and used said card in an attempt to register a vehicle at the Arkansas Department of Motor Vehicles, on 7th Street in Little Rock, Arkansas.
On 31 August 2020, in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County (CR 20-2621), Chasity Milton entered a plea of guilty to one count of Fraudulent Insurance Act (Class D Felony). She received one year of supervised probation and was ordered to pay a $500 fine, plus court costs. The sentence was issued pursuant to Act 346. On 31 October 2019, Chasity Milton went to the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (DF&A) in Sherwood to register her 2002 Chevrolet Impala. In doing so, she presented a Progressive Insurance document in her name that was later confirmed by Progressive as fraudulent. She later told investigators that she got the card from someone she knew was not an insurance agent when she could not afford insurance for her vehicle.
On 12 August 2020, in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County (CR 20-1250), Tamekia Moore entered a plea of guilty to one count of Fraudulent Insurance Act (Class D Felony). She received three years suspended imposition of sentence and was ordered to pay a $500 fine plus court costs. On 4 September 2019, Tamekia Moore reported a burglary at her home in Little Rock to the Little Rock Police. On 6 September 2019, she filed a claim with Allstate Insurance alleging a number of items had been stolen. Among these items was an HP Laptop. When the adjuster came to her home to discuss the burglary she found that the laptop in question was in plain view still in the home.