A man from San Diego, California, was arraigned in court on Thursday, March 5th. Roberto Garcia, 30, is facing charges for falsifying his insurance report after being in a hit-and-run accident that injured a child.

According to the California Department of Insurance, the man gave his insurance company a stolen vehicle report and filed a theft report with the Chula Vista police and his insurer after the March 2019 accident.

The crash happened on a freeway on March 3rd, and Garcia said in his report that his car was stolen after he dropped his keys at a bar in Chula Vista. The California Highway Patrol alerted the DOI about the hit-and-run, and they began an investigation.

The investigators uncovered that the day Garcia filed his theft report, he had in the company of his girlfriend hit a car on the freeway, and fled the scene. He falsified the story to cover up his act and get a $10 000 payout from his insurer.

The man is facing charges of presenting a false vehicle claim to an insurance company, felony hit-and-run, and false report of theft. The DIS report did not cover what Garcia did to his car after he reported it stolen.

He was released from jail on a $50 000 bond, and he is expected to return to court on March 20th. Garcia, if convicted, faces up to six years in state prison, and at the time of this report, there is no record on which way he pled.

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