SAN RAFAEL (BCN) – A pair in San Rafael has pleaded responsible to defrauding an insurance coverage firm, The Marin County District Lawyer’s Workplace introduced on Tuesday.

Sandra Yohanna Tejada, 55, pleaded responsible Thursday, March 10, to fraudulently supporting an insurance coverage declare, which is a felony. Her husband, Juan Cadena Nunez, 63, pleaded responsible to being an adjunct after the very fact, a misdemeanor.

Each instances stemmed from a private damage declare that was filed after the couple’s automobile was struck by a drunk driver in August 4, 2020, in keeping with a information launch from the district lawyer’s workplace.

The collision occurred when a drunk driver struck the couple’s automobile because it was parked on Woodland Avenue in San Rafael. The couple instructed the police that they had been within the automobile on the time it was struck and so they additionally retained an lawyer to file an insurance coverage declare alleging that that they had sustained accidents in the course of the collision. Nevertheless, investigators stated that they examined surveillance footage and decided that nobody was within the automobile on the time it was hit. Additionally they noticed the couple approaching the automobile after it was struck, they stated.

Nunez was positioned on one yr of casual courtroom probation, with phrases that embody restitution to the insurance coverage firm for the price of investigating the false declare and nicely as 10 days within the Marin County Jail. Tejada returns to courtroom for sentencing on April 14.

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