Jeremy Dewitte, Central Florida’s ‘faux cop’, going through slew of insurance coverage fraud costs – WFTV

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Jeremy Dewitte might have retired his Metro State motorbike one 12 months in the past, however the regulation hasn’t completed catching as much as the convicted police impersonator.

Investigators filed practically one dozen costs in opposition to Dewitte Friday, accusing him of a years-long effort to make use of his funeral escort enterprise to defraud insurance coverage corporations.

The primary spherical of accusations associated to the registration of Dewitte’s firm automobiles and bikes. In accordance with an arrest affidavit, Dewitte registered a few of his Metro-State autos with a number of insurance coverage corporations below his spouse’s identify and listed them as private autos, in an obvious try and evade greater costs placed on automobiles used for enterprise functions.

Dewitte’s spouse informed police she was not concerned within the insurance coverage software course of for any of their autos.

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“Had the reality been revealed in regards to the sirens, lights and decals on the autos, the insurance coverage coverage wouldn’t have been issued,” an worker of one of many insurance coverage corporations informed detectives.

The affidavit mentioned Dewitte’s actions represented a standard insurance coverage fraud scheme.

Investigators added that whereas the autos have been registered with the federal government to Metro State, Dewitte didn’t replace his intercourse offender registration inside the required 48-hour interval to incorporate each automobile he owned.

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Identical images, totally different crashes

On the identical time, Dewitte was below investigation for the registration of his autos, detectives have been gathering proof that he was additional defrauding corporations with inflated injury estimates from crash scenes.

In accordance with the affidavit, Dewitte submitted images and invoices to an insurance coverage firm for a crash that occurred in Orlando in Might 2020.

Dewitte informed troopers on scene that his worker was driving the automobile on the time, however he gave a distinct recounting of the occasions to the insurance coverage firm. In a recorded assertion, Dewitte made feedback that indicated he was driving the automobile, investigators mentioned.

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The report reveals Dewitte gave the insurance coverage firm a number of images of the “injury” that metadata revealed have been taken in 2017 and 2019, as much as three years earlier than the crash occurred.

Dewitte additionally submitted an bill for restore work to exchange his automobile’s lights that investigators mentioned matched an bill he submitted to a different fraudulent declare he made for an incident in Polk County in 2018. Whereas the date was faraway from the brand new submission, the bill quantity was the identical, a detective wrote.

They mentioned costs for the 2018 incident have been nonetheless pending with the State Lawyer’s workplace. A consultant for that workplace refused to touch upon the case Friday.

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For the Might 2020 crash, investigators mentioned Dewitte acquired a complete of $9,490 from the insurance coverage firm, together with a $2,000 examine for harm claims that he made regardless of not being the driving force of the automobile.

5 months later, in October 2020, investigators mentioned Dewitte pulled the identical stunt with a distinct insurance coverage firm, submitting a number of the identical images and invoices that he used after the Might crash. Included in that was an bill for motorbike elements, which the detective famous made no sense as a result of Dewitte was driving a Chevy Tahoe.

After the case was settled for $10,000, investigators interviewed each the opposite driver and Dewitte’s passenger. Each mentioned Dewitte deliberately brought on the crash by accelerating into the again of the opposite automobile.

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“Defendant knowledgeable her he purposely collided with the opposite automobile because it was trying to go across the defendant’s automobile in a turning lane to trigger this crash so he would be capable to obtain funds from an insurance coverage declare,” the passenger reportedly informed investigators.

Regardless of pleading with a decide for leniency Friday afternoon, Dewitte’s bond was once more denied. He’ll stay in jail pending a future courtroom date, in addition to whereas prosecutors try and convict him for violating the phrases of his probation.

Dewitte didn’t have an legal professional listed on Orange County’s courtroom web site.

Video: Central Florida ‘faux cop’ Jeremy Dewitte arrested once more One in all Central Florida’s most notable faux cops has once more discovered himself on the fallacious aspect of the regulation. (James Tutten, WFTV.com/WFTV)

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