Man arrested in insurance scam case
♦ He is accused of bilking more than two dozen customers out of thousands of dollars via prearrangement funeral insurance.
A man accused last August of stealing thousands of dollars from the elderly through an elaborate funeral home insurance scam is now in custody in Catoosa County, police say.
According to the Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office, 41-year-old Kevin Lee Miles faces multiple counts of theft by deception and financial exploitation of the elderly after bilking more than two dozen customers out of thousands of dollars via pre-arrangement funeral insurance while working out of Wilson Funeral Homes.
After being arrested recently in Detroit, Michigan, Miles was extradited back to Catoosa County on Friday, Jan. 31, reports show.
Miles’ arrest comes five months after becoming wanted by Catoosa County sheriff’s detectives for his ongoing scams, which at that point included 28 known victims and theft of at least $75,000.
When Catoosa County Sheriff Gary Sisk announced that detectives were looking for Miles back in August, he stated that although Miles had initiated a lot of the deception while working out of Wilson Funeral Homes, he was actually an independent contractor and not a direct representative of the funeral home.
Sisk said Miles had been an independent contractor with Atlantic Coast Insurance Co. working out of Wilson Funeral Home to sell funeral pre-arrangements through Atlantic Coast Life, which is based in Charleston, S.C. Sisk said the prearrangement agreements went on from June 2017 to July 2019.
Wilson Funeral Home has chapels in Fort Oglethorpe, Ringgold, Chickamauga, and Lafayette, all in Georgia.
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