Seven Indicted For PIP Fraud Scheme Involving U-Haul Truck

Seven Macon residents were indicted Tuesday in an alleged 2013 insurance fraud scheme involving a staged crash between a U-Haul and a BMW. Bernard Taylor, 56, Kentaurus Taylor, 27, Stephanie Sharee James, 41, and Marcus Bernard Pertillo, 30, are charged with two counts of insurance fraud, according to an indictment filed in Bibb County Superior Court. Alicia Bell, 44, Kokeythia B. Glover, 24, and Erion Phillips, 22, are charged with a single count of insurance fraud, according to the indictment. James and Glover additionally are charged with making a false statement.