DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES
DIVISION OF INSURANCE FRAUD
Enforcement Action Notification
Case DetectiveCase Number: 11-3532
Supervisor: Lt. Evangelina Brooks
Nature of Occurrence
A. Warrant Arrest:
B. Probable Cause Arrest:
Pending
Pending
Completed
Completed
If Pending is checked, DO NOT RELEASE INFO TO MEDIA
C. Search Warrant:
D. Conviction:
F. Other:
Yes
Yes
No
No
Date of Action/Anticipated Action: January 23, 2013
Subject: Camilo Escobar
DOB: 5-8-90 Address: 4779 Saratoga Rd. WPB
Co-Defendant: Roberto Abreu
DOB: 1-20-59 Address: 3127 Collin Dr. WPB
Co-Defendant: Yoana Paneca
Worth,FL
DOB: DOB 3-15-90
Address: 3633 Patio Court, Lake
Date of Actual Arrest if applicable: 1/23/2013 @0005 hrs
Arresting Detective(s): Det. T.Grimaldi & Det. E. Bassas
Charges(s): Staged Crash,Insurance Fraud, Grand Theft and Perjury
Subject is booked into: Palm Beach County Jail Booked on Bond: various
Maximum Possible Sentence: 15 years
Victim: State Farm, Seminole Casualty and Allstate
Financial Loss: $14,277 Seminole, $14,829 Allstate, $16,012.37 State Farm
Grand Total $45,118.37
Synopsis
A fraud referral was received from Allstate Insurance indicating that Camilo
Escobar commited insurance fraud. Video surveillance showed that Escobar did not
attend or receive treatment as HHR Clinic billed. Escobar was interviewed and
confessed that the crash was staged and he was paid $1,500.00 for his
participation. Escobar described his LMT as a young male approximately 20 years of
age. Thirty five of Escobar's therapy notes were in fact signed and submitted by
Roberto Abreu whom Escobar claims he did not see more than three times. Abreu had
been previously arrested on another HHR Clinic staged crash case. The occupants of
the second vehicle went to Florida Mango Massage Therapy. An interview of the
"straw" clinic owner and LMT (Yida Bello) confirmed that the occupants of the
second vehicle, Eduart Gonzalez and Yoana Paneca, did not attend therapy sessions
at Florida Mango Massage. In an interview, Paneca also confesssed that the crash
was in fact staged and that she was paid $2,000.00 for her participation. Paneca
further admitted that the occupant of her car, Eduart Gonzalez, was the organizer
and the person who paid her.
Florida Mango Massage Therapy submitted for billing for therapy for both Paneca and
Gonzalez. The LMT who signed the therapy notes for Paneca and Gonzalez was Jorge
Acosta. An interview of Acosta resulted in a confession that he in fact did not
treat the patients in question and most of the therapy forms were pre-signed and
fraud was being committed at the clinic.
During the early morning hours of 0005 and 0715 hrs, four arrests were made in this
case.
2 participants - Escobar and Paneca
2 LMT's - Abreu and Acosta
After the early morning hunt for the Organizer/Participant, Eduart Gonzalez, it was
confirmed through flight manifest records that he fled to Cuba to avoid arrest. An
arrest warrant is pending for this subject out of Palm Beach County.
Additional Arrests in this case include:
Jorge Acosta
DOB 3-1-65
1116 Canal Street, Belle Glade,FL