North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey last week announced that a roof scam sting operation coordinated with the Department’s fraud investigators and Farm Bureau’s Special Investigations Unit has yielded the arrest of one man with a second arrest pending.
Robert Allen Bentley, 36, of 6617 Elmstone Drive, Charlotte, a senior project manager with A&M Premier Roofing & Construction, was arrested on Dec. 10 and charged with insurance fraud, attempting to obtain property by false pretense and conspiracy, according to a press release from the N.C. Department of Insurance. All three charges are felonies.
According to the arrest warrant, Bentley conspired with a co-worker to defraud North Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance Group by damaging and bending shingles on the roof of a Wake County home and then claiming that the roof damage was caused by wind and hail. The false claim was an attempt to obtain a $30,000 claim from the insurance company…