A Marysville couple were charged with insurance fraud that stemmed from a false auto insurance claim, the Snohomish County Superior Court announced Monday.
Brittany Jones and Steven Jones were each charged with one count of filing a false insurance claim May 14, following an investigation by the Washington State Insurance Commission's Criminal Investigations Unit.
According to the investigation, the couple added a 2011 Ford Escape to their Geico insurance policy at 6:08 a.m. June 18. They filed a claim of $11,273 for a collision they said happened 20 minutes after they purchased the new policy.
The charges were filed in Snohomish Coutny Superior Court.
GEICO found records that the car was towed from the collision scene at 5 a.m. that day and denied the claim, referring the case to the state.
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