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TRENTON
- Attorney General Anne Milgram and Criminal
Justice Director Gregory A. Paw announced
that a Massachusetts man was sentenced today
for his role in a New Jersey auto theft
and insurance fraud ring.
According
to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden
Brown, Krzysztof Sprysak, a/k/a Krzysztof
Rumor, a/k/a Andrzej Komar, 33, of Worcester,
Massachusetts, was ordered by Superior Court
Judge Joseph P. Donohue in Union County
to serve three years in state prison and
to pay $19,317 in restitution. The sentence
was pursuant to Sprysak’s Jan. 9 guilty
plea to third-degree receiving stolen property,
a charge contained in a July 26, 2006 Union
County grand jury indictment.
At
the guilty plea hearing before Judge Donohue,
Sprysak admitted that he possessed a stolen
2003 BMW 330i and sold the car to an undercover
investigator who was working on behalf of
the Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor.
A 2003 BMW 330i has an approximate value
of $38,000. Typically, stolen cars are fenced
for far below book value or market price.
This
indictment and subsequent guilty plea were
part of the Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor’s
continuing investigation into a ring that
committed car thefts, trafficked in stolen
cars, and participated in owner “give
ups” in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
Sprysak’s illegal conduct was centered
in Union County.
An
owner-initiated vehicle “give up”
occurs when the owner of an automobile voluntarily
gives up his car to another so that it can
be chopped for parts or retagged and sold,
and so that a phony automobile theft insurance
claim can be submitted.
State
Investigators Jeffrey Lorman and Jarek Pyrzanowski,
Civil Investigator Gary Miller, Analyst
Paula Carter and Deputy Attorney General
Jacqueline D. Smith were assigned to the
investigation. Smith represented the Office
of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor at the sentencing.
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