Fifteen Southern California residents, including an employee with the California Highway Patrol, are accused of being part of an organized crime ring that colluded to profit from fraudulent auto insurance claims totaling over $350,000, according to the California Department of Insurance.
Officials said Reyes and Parga would then deploy tow trucks - whose drivers were allegedly in on the scheme - and would pick up those vehicles and tow them to CA Collision, owned by 35-year-old Anthony Gomez of Jurupa Valley. Once there, the vehicles were "held hostage" and insurance companies were contacted demanding cash payments from them to have the vehicles released.
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