A former volunteer firefighter in Texas was given deferred adjudication after pleading guilty to insurance fraud of more than $2,500 and less than $30,000, a state felony with a punishment range of 180 days to two years in state jail. According to court documents, late one August night a fire was discovered at the former firefighter's house. The blaze was extinguished and investigated by the Burkburnett Volunteer Fire Department (BVFD), which the defendant had volunteered with. A week later the BVFD Captain who had investigated the fire contacted a police detective and stated that he initially thought the fire was accidental but a few things had been brought to his attention that seemed suspicious. Another firefighter had contacted the Captain saying that the former volunteer had asked him for the serial number for an expensive BK radio the witness had just purchased. The witness said that the former volunteer was going to claim the witness's radio saying it was lost in the fire so that the former volunteer could get a new radio, despite never having owned one. The detective examined the insurance claim that showed the serial number from the witness's BK radio with a cost amount of $2,516.80. The former volunteer firefighter admitted to filing a false claim for the radio.

He was sentenced to four years of community supervision and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution to Nationwide Insurance Company.