Floridian Admits To Staged Crashes To Collect Insurance

A 20-year-old West Palm Beach man was arrested Wednesday and charged with committing more than $20,000 worth of insurance fraud for claiming that injuries he already had were the result of two car crashes he staged with another man. According to a Florida Department of Financial Services report, Theodore Wilkens was the passenger in a May 31, 2016, crash in a McDonald’s parking lot on Lantana Road south of Greenacres. Another car sideswiped the car in which Wilkens was the passenger, resulting in Wilkens seeking chiropractic treatment for an injury to his shoulder.