Florida Couple Staged Home Invasion, Shot Themselves To Make Insurance Claim

A Deltona husband and wife’s story that they were shot during a home invasion was suspicious from the beginning and it fell apart when detectives learned the man and woman actually shot themselves with hopes of fraudulently collecting insurance money, Sheriff Mike Chitwood said. Lindsey Pelton, 36, has a criminal history that shows fraud, scheming and scamming is her forte. And the staged home invasion was to be no different: an elaborate scheme to defraud, Chitwood said. Except it didn’t work.