Auto Theft Claim Led To Chop Shop, Insurance Fraud Charges For Former Cop

A former Dade City police officer was arrested Thursday for insurance fraud among other charges, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The officer, Jonathan Lance Hobby and two others, Bruce Dewayne Wilson Jr. and Carl “Chuck” Roach Jr. were charged with conspiracy to deal in stolen property and operating a chop shop. Hobby and Wilson were also charged with conspiracy to commit insurance fraud. Hobby alone faces two additional charges: insurance fraud and filing a false police report, the agency said. According to detectives, Hobby filed a police report in May 2017 claiming his 2015 Dodge Ram 1500 truck was stolen from Rancho Bonito in Lakeland.