VIRGINIA GARDENS, Fla. — Nearly two years after making the first series of arrests in the case of a “fraudulent insurance school” near the Miami airport, state investigators say they’ve ensnared 12 more agents.
The case involves the former D&R Academy, which was located out of an office building at 6405 NW 36th St. in Virginia Gardens. Local 10 News reported on the first arrests in June 2024, after which Florida’s then-Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis called the allegations “reprehensible.”
Those included the then-59-year-old man accused of running that school, Rainier Miguel Salas. Investigators with the Florida Department of Financial Services alleged that the Miami resident ran an operation in which at least 820 insurance licensing examinations were “subverted” through the school…