PALMDALE \u2013 A Los Angeles County probation officer has been charged with insurance fraud and grand theft for allegedly altering a medical document to obtain \u201ccompensation that she would not otherwise be entitled to,\u201d authorities announced.<\/p>\n
Kimberly Evans<\/strong>, 46, of Palmdale, was arrested March 20 by the Los Angeles County Probation Department\u2019s Special Projects Team, according to LASD inmate records.<\/p>\n Evans is a sworn peace officer with the Los Angeles County Probation Department and is assigned to a Juvenile Detention Facility as a detention services officer, according to a press release by the probation department.<\/p>\n \u201cAn investigation by the Special Projects Team revealed that Evans allegedly altered [a] medical documentation resulting in a loss of $1,707.20 during the time period she claimed as \u2018sick time\u2019 on her time card,\u201d the press release states.<\/p>\n This is the latest arrest as the Los Angeles County Probation Department continues to beef up its Professional Standards Bureau to crack down on insurance fraud and employee misconduct.<\/p>\n \u201cWithin the last year the Department added a Special Projects Team comprised of four supervisory level investigators,\u201d stated Jennifer Kaufman, Senior Director. \u201cThese investigators are specially trained to recognize the signs of workers’ compensation and\/or medical fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n Evans was charged with one felony count each of insurance fraud, grand theft and presentation of a false claim and one misdemeanor count of altering a medical record with a fraudulent intent, according to Greg Risling of the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n Arraignment is set for April 17, Risling added.<\/p>\n Evans was booked March 20 at the Santa Clarita Sheriff\u2019s station, and then released hours later on $30,000 bail, according to LASD inmate records.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PALMDALE \u2013 A Los Angeles County probation officer has been charged with insurance fraud and grand theft for allegedly altering a medical document to obtain \u201ccompensation that she would not otherwise be entitled to,\u201d authorities announced. Kimberly Evans, 46, of Palmdale, was arrested March 20 by the Los Angeles County Probation Department\u2019s Special Projects Team, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}