California Department of Insurance news release<\/a>. <\/p>\nThe passengers inside the ride-hail vehicle, Ledontae Pope, 30, and Kalil Davis, 27, were allegedly in on the scam and claimed they were injured. The two were taken to a hospital by paramedics. The aim of the scam was to file a claim against the ride-hail driver and collect the insurance payout, state officials said.<\/p>\n
The incident was reported to the California Highway Patrol as a hit-and-run, according to the release. But during the CHP\u2019s investigation into the crash, the ride-hail driver shared their suspicion that the crash may have been staged. The CHP then referred the incident to the Inland Empire Automobile Insurance Task Force. <\/p>\n
On Jan. 27, the San Bernardino County district attorney\u2019s office charged Pope, Davis, and Deshawn Perater-Nickson, 26, with assault with a deadly weapon and insurance fraud. Perater-Nickson was identified as the owner of the vehicle that Murillo was driving during the crash.<\/p>\n
As part of the investigation into Pope, Davis and Perater-Nickson, authorities executed search warrants that led them to Murillo as the driver and a fifth co-conspirator, Klydale Moses, 24, of Fontana. Authorities said Moses wasn\u2019t involved in the crash but played a role in their scheme.<\/p>\n
Of the five defendants, all but Perater-Nickson have pleaded no contest in court in the last two months. <\/p>\n
Pope, Davis and Moses were sentenced to jail time and probation. Murillo is awaiting sentencing but has agreed to spend two years in prison, state Department of Insurance officials said. Perater-Nickson faces multiple felonies, including false imprisonment, pimping and pandering. His case is pending in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A car crash on a Southern California freeway last year was a staged wreck to scam a ride-hail…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6577,7,9,8,3297,852,40411,4456,40418,348,40415,40414,40416,40413,16208,40412,40417,178],"class_list":["post-68125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-authority","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-car-crash","tag-chp","tag-deshawn-perater-nickson","tag-incident","tag-insurance-fraud","tag-investigation","tag-john-murillo","tag-kalil-davis","tag-klydale-moses","tag-ledontae-pope","tag-passenger","tag-ride-hail-driver","tag-socal-freeway","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}