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Georgia Collision Repair Shop Owner Pleads Guilty in Insurance Fraud Racketeering Case

January 16, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

A Decatur, Ga. collision repair shop owner pleaded guilty January 14 to staging car crashes and inflicting intentional damage on customers’ cars to pocket larger insurance payments.

Alfonzo McKeever, 55, pleaded guilty to racketeering just before his trial was set to begin in Bibb County Superior Court. A judge sentenced him to serve 15 years. McKeever, of Stone Mountain, must serve the first two years in prison and the remainder on probation. He also must join his co-defendants in paying more than $19,000 in restitution to GEICO Insurance Company and more than $15,000 to Progressive insurance.

Between November 2013 and

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