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SAN MARTIN — A brace of San Martin brothers spearheaded a arrangement area about two-dozen bodies staged car crashes to banknote in on added than $200,000 in affected allowance claims, authorities said.
The brothers, 36-year-old Angel Topete and 34-year-old Joshua Topete, were amid 18 bodies — mostly Santa Clara County association — arrested over the accomplished ages in affiliation with 18 “staged collisions” appear over a three-year stretch, according to the accompaniment Department of Allowance and Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.
Four suspects are still actuality sought. One of the defendants answerable in the case, Gerardo Ivan Espinosa Martinez, 31, was already actuality prosecuted in a abstracted allowance artifice case involving 15 added allegedly staged collisions.
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“This ample arena of ancestors and accompany allegedly conspired to bamboozle insurers out of hundreds of bags of dollars,” Allowance Commissioner Dave Jones said in a statement. “The amount of allowance artifice is shouldered by consumers who pay college premiums back insurers canyon forth their losses. Working with our assignment force ally is analytical in active the multi-billion dollar botheration of allowance fraud.”
Investigators with the Silicon Valley Automobile Allowance Artifice Assignment Force opened a case in 2015 and eventually bent that the Topete brothers masterminded a arrangement area their family, accompany and added assembly filed counterfeit claims with six altered insurers “for collisions that were either staged or never occurred at all,” authorities said.
The assignment force, fabricated up of cadre from the Department of Insurance, the District Attorney’s Office and California Highway Patrol, contends that the defendants took up new behavior beneath assorted names and again carefully comatose their cars into anniversary other. Some of the cars complex were salvaged vehicles.
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The consecutive counterfeit claims they filed, declaring the absolute accident of a vehicle, netted a absolute of $210,000, authorities said.
The District Attorney’s Office said in a account absolution that the collisions were “often appear as acquired by a absent river arresting anchored vehicles,” and were appear amid 2012 and 2015.
The accomplished distinct affirmation was for $37,723, prosecutors said. Two San Jose auto-body shops, Espinosa Body Boutique and Auto Parts USA, were implicated.
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It was the captivation of the Espinosa Body Boutique that appears to accept burst accessible the best contempo artifice case: A Farmers Allowance board noticed that accident on one of the cars did not bout a agnate claim, and remembered that the boutique was already accused of fraud.
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