26 Suspects In Georgia Auto Insurance Fraud Ring

One of 26 suspects in a $500,000 fraud scheme has been arrested. Deidra S. Holmes, 35 of Cuthbert, Ga., was arrested and faces insurance fraud, theft by deception, identity fraud and racketeering charges. She was booked into the Muscogee County Jail on Tuesday. Holmes is one of 26 suspects in the case centered in Columbus. Twenty-one of the suspects were arrested in June. The entire group faces 326 charges. “This fraud ring staged phony accidents and filed fraudulent claims collecting thousands of dollars,” Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens said in June.