ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis man admitted on Monday to staging several auto accidents and injuries to defraud insurance companies of over $100,000.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Missouri, Adrian Peebles, 31, pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud.
From September 2021 to January 2023, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Peebles staged the accidents at night and typically in remote areas to reduce his chances of getting caught and told responded officers that he had been injured.
People would go to the emergency room complaining of “non-determinative pain that required expensive tests that never identified any particular injury,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Peebles allegedly then insisted the resulting payments from the vehicle insurance companies be made to him rather than the hospital, and he would not pay his medical bills.
As a result, two insurance companies lost a total of $107,951 to the scheme.
Peebles is scheduled to be sentenced on April 17.