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TRENTON
- Attorney General Anne Milgram and Criminal
Justice Director Gregory A. Paw announced
that a Union County man was sentenced today
for possessing and attempting to sell a
stolen Cadillac Escalade.
According
to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden
Brown, Luis Marte, 35, of Union Township,
was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Joseph
P. Donohue in Union County to three years
probation, conditioned on him serving 180
days in the county jail. He was ordered
to pay $47,000 in restitution to Zurich
Insurance Company. Marte pleaded guilty
on June 25 to a charge of receiving stolen
property.
Marte
admitted that he knowingly possessed a stolen
2004 Cadillac Escalade, worth approximately
$55,000. Marte admitted that he knew that
the car had been stolen on Nov. 14, 2003
from Demco Construction Corp. while parked
on a lot in Great Neck, N.Y. Marte illegally
obtained a Michigan title for the stolen
car using an altered vehicle identification
number and attempted to sell the car.
State Investigators Jarek Pyrzanowski and
Jeffrey Lorman and Deputy Attorney General
Jacqueline D. Smith were assigned to the
investigation. Smith represented the Office
of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor at the sentencing.
“Frequently
insurance fraud investigations lead to evidence
of stolen automobiles and alteration of
vehicle identification numbers,” said
Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden Brown. “This
office will continue to follow evidence
of fraud and theft wherever it leads.”
The Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
was established by the Automobile Insurance
Cost Reduction Act of 1998. The Office is
the centralized state agency that investigates
and prosecutes both civil and criminal insurance
fraud, as well as Medicaid fraud.
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