Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Times
Wednesday, May 19, 1976, page 4 (of 35)
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CG lawyer indicted for claims fraud
A 36-year-old Coral Gables attorney surrendered to U.S. marshalls on a federal warrant charging him with obstructing justice in a major probe into suspected insurance fraud activity in Dade and Broward counties. Police said that James H. Davis II, who lives at 89 Leucadendra Dr. in Coral Gables was ordered by U.S. Southern District Magistrate Charlene Sorrentino held on $50,000 bail. Two of Davis' associates, Irving E. Curtiss, 49, of northwest Miami and William H. Holton, 50, also of Miami, are already in custody after being arrested on the same warrant. The two-year long investigation is being conducted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Marcia Lyons with the help of special agents of the Insurance Crime Prevention Institute (ICPI), an industry-funded investigative group. The ICPI sleuths, Postal Inspectors and Metro PSD officials have been looking into allegations of ambulance chasing and no -fault claims inflation practices in the Miami area, where the cost of automobile insurance has risen by as much as 42 per cent. Florida Bar assistant executive director Dick McFarlin recently told the Florida Insurance Task Force that the federal grand jury was nearly ready to deliver indictments against suspected claims offenders.
Mugging
A 25-year-old woman was robbed in the parking lot of a South Dade lounge Saturday, May 15 at 3:30 p.m. Police said that Shirley Dukes was assaulted in the lot of the Allapattah Lounge, SW 224th Street and 112th Avenue by a woman and two men. According to officers, one man pulled a gold necklace from Ms. Dukes' neck while the female assailant grabbed her purse and took her money. Ms. Dukes was treated at the South Dade Health Clinic for a cut on her right eye and released. Harry Lee Damon, 25, Anthony Morris, 25,and Harriet Dean, 27, were arrested by Metro South District officers and booked into the Dade County jail on charges of robbery.
Body found
A group of hunters found the badly decomposed body of a woman just off Tamiami Trail Sunday , May 16, at 4 p.m. According to police, the hunters found the corpse about a half mile south of the Trail at SW 174th Avenue. The female body , of unknown age, was five feet, two inches tall, weighed 110 pounds and had red sandy blond hair. It was clothed in a red tube top, and there was a spoon ring on the right hand. Anyone with information should call the PSD homicide section at 847-7456. The cause of death is undetermined pending an autopsy.
police blotter Farm Store robbed
The Farm Store at 11150 SW 184th St. was robbed Saturday, May 15, at 8:50 p.m. Twenty-eight-year-old Joe Cianciaruli was working the store alone when a man wearing a white stocking mask and brandishing a handgun stalked in and ordered him to open the register, police said. After ordering Cianciaruli to lie face down on the floor, the thief disappeared in the darkness.
Thoni heist
The Thoni Service Service Station at 20550 S. Dixie Hwy., was robbed Saturday, May 15, at 4:05 p.m. Officers reported that Reinaldo Alvarez, a 16-year-old employe, was walking toward the back of the station when he was confronted by a man armed with a handgun and forced to give up the day's receipts. The intruder also cleaned out the juvenile's pockets then took off in a blue car driven by a companion.
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