A Yuma man, Isrrael Millan III, was sentenced last week to 87 months in prison after being found guilty by a jury on December 13, 2022, of Conspiracy, Wire and Mail Fraud, and Money Laundering.
Millan was also ordered to pay $391,279.45 in restitution to the victim insurance companies.
According to the Department of Justice, the 43-year-old Millan’s conviction was related to several insurance fraud schemes that took place between 2018 and 2020 in Yuma, Arizona.
Millan’s schemes included staging vehicle accidents, as well as deliberately flooding residences, and then submitting fraudulent claims to insurance companies. One of the incidents occurred in the early morning of June 2, 2019, when two individuals Millan recruited deliberately crashed a U-Haul moving truck into the Sunshine Market and Liquors Convenience Store in Yuma.
Millan worked as a general contractor and made fraudulent claims related to the damage caused by some of these incidents in an effort to collect insurance proceeds.