A Kansas man has been convicted of fraud after bilking an insurer out of more than $21,000 by filing claims on imaginary boats.
Larry F. Mason, 61, pleaded guilty to two counts of insurance fraud after investigators proved that two boats he reported as stolen never actually existed, according to local news station FOX4.
Court documents showed that Mason filed an insurance claim for a stolen boat, saying that the boat vanished between February 2018 and May 2018. The insurance company paid Mason $21,483.13 for the claim, according to FOX4.
Mason then tried to file another claim on a similar boat. He said the second boat was stolen between November 2018 and March 2019.
However, investigators found that Mason had fabricated the identification numbers on the claims. The two boats he claimed were stolen were never manufactured.
Mason was sentenced to 24 months of supervised probation and ordered to pay more than $21,000 in restitution, FOX4 reported.
