Three individuals who allegedly conspired to collect on an auto insurance policy while having their car dismantled so that its parts could be used or sold separately have been busted by authorities in California.

In the scheme, Ana Laura Salgado-Antunez reported that her 2006 Nissan Armada was stolen while parked outside the house of Ninfa Patricia Ramos-Ortiz, a friend of hers. She subsequently filed a theft report and alerted her insurer, Mercury Insurance Company. But during the claim adjustment process, Mercury discovered that Ramos-Ortiz and her son had driven the car into Mexico the day prior to it being reported stolen.

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