Auto Shop Owner Pleads No Contest To Fraud Charges

A Redwood City man was sentenced to two years probation and 40 days in jail after he pleaded no contest to two felony charges of insurance fraud Thursday, said Steve Wagstaffe, San Mateo County district attorney. Though Uriel Lenin Sotomayor, 32, pleaded no contest to felony charges, a judge reduced the charges to misdemeanors at sentencing. He will receive credit for one day served, said Wagstaffe. In 2010 and 2011, four individuals brought their vehicles into Quest Auto Collision Shop, where Sotomayor was foreman and later owner.