South Carolina Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Insurance Fraud

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced a Horry County jury has found a Conway man guilty of insurance fraud. Judson Stanley was convicted of one count of Presenting a False Claim for Insurance Payment over $10,000 in Horry County General Sessions Court on July 16, 2015.

Stanley was accused of stripping parts off of a co-defendant’s 2007 Cadillac Escalade in May 2014. According to the South Carolina Office of the Attorney General, the co-defendant then parked the vehicle at an abandoned parking lot and reported transmission problems to a tow company, which discovered the vehicle stripped. The co-defendant made a police report claiming vandalism and filed a claim with an insurer for the damage. The vehicle was then taken to a repair shop where Stanley attempted to have the stripped parts reinstalled on the vehicle as if they were new.

Judge Benjamin H. Culbertson sentenced Stanley to the maximum sentence of 10 years incarceration under the statute. Stanley had two previous convictions for Presenting a False Claim for Insurance Payment and was on probation at the time of the trial. The judge revoked the defendant’s probation on the previous charges and also sentenced him to five years on his probation violation to run concurrent to the sentence.