Daily Archives: September 18, 2020

9 more charged in scheme to stage I-10 vehicle wrecks, collect insurance payouts

BY KATELYN UMHOLTZ | NOLA.COM | SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 Nine more people have been indicted on federal charges in a scheme to crash vehicles into buses and big trucks in the New Orleans area, in order to defraud insurance companies. They join 19 other defendants already under indictment. Insurers have paid hundreds of thousands of…

TWENTY-EIGHT NOW CHARGED IN FEDERAL PROBE INTO THE STAGING OF AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS

Friday, September 18, 2020 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today the indictment of nine additional defendants bringing the total to twenty-eight charged for intentionally staging automobile accidents. Today’s indictment charges CORNELIUS GARRISON (“GARRISON”), age 54, of New Orleans, Louisiana; DONIESHA GIBSON (“GIBSON”), age 29, of New Orleans, Louisiana; CHANDRIKA…