BC man busted for fraud after reporting vehicle stolen
A Castlegar, B.C. man has been fined $2,750 after admitting he lied to police about his truck being stolen.
In April 2009, Kyle Anderson told police he parked his Toyota Tacoma 4×4 on a beach near Creston and went for a walk along the beach with a friend. Anderson said that when the returned, the truck was gone.
A subsequent investigation found that the truck had been involved in a hit and run in the same area five days earlier. An elderly woman in the other car was injured in the crash – but the driver of the truck took off to avoid liability and possible criminal charges.
Anderson, who also did not have a valid driver’s licence at the time, pled guilty to providing false or misleading information to ICBC.
The judge who accepted Anderson’s guilty plea fined the 29-year-old $2,750.
“Insurance fraud is a serious crime that steals hard-earned money from the overwhelming majority of our honest customers,” said Steve Tripp, manager of ICBC’s special investigations unit. “We will not sit back and simply pass the cost of fraud on to our customers.”
