Surveillance Reveals A Non-Disabled Comp Claimant

A Tacoma-area man faces a felony theft charge after he was caught working while receiving more than $81,000 in workers’ compensation disability payments. Bobby R. Johnson, 47, has been charged with first-degree theft after investigators from the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries discovered he was working while receiving disability payments. He was scheduled to be arraigned in Pierce County Superior Court on Aug. 19. The Washington Attorney General’s Office filed the charge based on the investigation by the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I).