Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Niya Curinton Dix, 50, a local real estate broker, was booked into the Alachua County Jail today and charged with five felonies related to allegedly filing a fraudulent insurance claim.
The sworn complaint from the Florida Department of Financial Services alleges that in September 2024, Dix filed a property loss claim to Florida Farm Bureau for damage to the lights in her pool. As part of the claim, Dix reportedly submitted a quote from a pool company that said several of the lights had been flooded for a long time, so Florida Farm Bureau denied the claim, stating that the damage did not appear to be storm-related…