Texas Woman Guilty of Staging Crashes

A 32-year-old Port Arthur, Texas woman has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales Thursday. Shawnta Rene Bell Jones pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud Thursday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith F. Giblin. According to information presented in court, from November 2006 to August 2013, Jones was involved in a conspiracy with others to defraud insurance providers and other businesses by staging automobile collisions and then submitting claims for property damage and personal injury by U.S. mail and other carriers.