FORT WORTH -- Prison sentences were handed down Tuesday for two remaining defendants in a fake collision scheme that defrauded insurance companies of hundreds of thousands of dollars from 2006 to 2011, federal prosecutors reported.
Kara Lashon Collins, 36, and Stephanie Denise Moses, 45, were sentenced to 46 months and 12 months respectively. Collins was also ordered to pay about $356,000 in restitution, and Moses was ordered to pay about $95,000 in restitution.The women pleaded guilty in April to one count of mail fraud.Earlier this month, the principal defendants, Frenchitt Su-Dell Collins, 42, and Alan Murray Robison, 32, were sentenced.Frenchitt Collins, who is Kara Collins' husband and Alan Robison's half-brother, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison and ordered to pay about $700,000 in restitution. Robison was sentenced to 110 months and ordered to pay about $203,000 in restitution.According to a news release, the defendants recruited people who would say that they had been involved in and injured in staged automobile collisions.They obtained insurance on vehicles used in the wrecks -- sometimes using salvaged vehicles -- and on the people supposedly driving the vehicles.They also stole the identities of people including an Iraq war veteran and school cafeteria worker, and submitted fraudulent insurance claims in their names for supposed injuries sustained in the staged collisions, prosecutors said. -- Staff reportHave more to add? News tip? Tell us
