The mayor of an El Paso County metropolis has been arrested on a cost of insurance coverage fraud – over a case that allegedly occurred earlier than her election final 12 months.
Isela Reyes, 41, the mayor of San Elizario, was accused of submitting a fraudulent insurance coverage declare – with a price between $2,500 and $30,000 – in March of final 12 months. She was sworn into workplace simply months later in May.
She was arrested by El Paso County sheriff’s detectives who have been assigned to the FBI West Texas Border Corruption Task Force. El Paso Times reported that whereas the alleged fraud occurred earlier than Reyes was elected mayor, the FBI activity pressure was concerned within the investigation as she is at present serving as a public official.
Reyes was booked in El Paso County Jail on a $25,000 bond.
In different fraud-related information, former Amtrak worker Lizette Berrios Lathon not too long ago pleaded responsible to conspiring together with her husband to steal virtually $1 million in COVID-19-related unemployment insurance coverage advantages and for dishonestly acquiring greater than $63,000 in illness advantages.