Operation Sledgehammer: Insurance fraud in NYC....

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At least a dozen people in New Rochelle and the Bronx were indicted Wednesday in a cunning car fraud scheme to collect insurance by strategically smashing vehicles and submitting big-buck bills while scrimping on the actual repairs, prosecutors said. The two-year investigation dubbed “Operation Sledgehammer” led to charges against nine individuals and five body shop businesses in Westchester County and the north Bronx, prosecutors said. 

The defendants were part of a fraud ring named Jawahir Enterprise, authorities said.

According to prosecutors, ring members between May 2019 and March intentionally made damaged cars even worse when they were brought into body shops — sometimes with the owner’s knowledge, sometimes without, said prosecutors. In several incidents, the group staged car accidents involving two or more vehicles as long as one of the car owners had insurance, authorities said.

And on more than one occasion, the conspirators smashed up cars with sledgehammers to make it look like damage inflicted by another vehicle, according to court papers. Sometimes the group did nothing to the vehicle but filed an insurance claim anyway, prosecutors said.

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Four of the defendants -- Joseph S. Cermele, Rangee Jawahir, Georgette S. Sloley, and Wayne M. Scott -- were arrested Dec. 1 and arraigned in New Rochelle City Court. The remaining individuals -- Ronnie Lee-Andros Jawahir, Allan Ramdeo Ramiah, Ronald Jawahir, Danesh Singh, and Andrew Arjune -- were arrested Tuesday and also arraigned in New Rochelle City Court.

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