Arkansas Woman Charged with Filing Nearly $250K in False Insurance Claims

A Pulaski County, Ark., employee who processed insurance claims has been fired after being arrested and charged with filing false insurance claims for nearly $250,000.

Authorities say 60-year-old Wanda Wyatt was a fleet records clerk who processed insurance claims for accidents involving county vehicles and equipment and that she created false accident reports that she submitted to the Central Arkansas Risk Management Association.

Wyatt would then receive checks and deposit them into her bank account. Authorities say the scheme has been going on since 2008.

Wyatt is charged with 73 counts of theft and 80 counts of computer fraud.

County Judge Barry Hyde told reporters that Wyatt has been fired.

Wyatt is jailed on $665,000 bond. Jail records do not list an attorney for her.