Insurance coverage Agent Accused Of Scamming Aged Arrested In North Carolina

Kevin Miles, the 41-year-old insurance coverage agent who allegedly scammed greater than 30 folks, is in custody, in line with Catoosa County Sheriff's Workplace.

Miles was arrested by the Cherokee Indian Police Division in Cherokee, North Carolina.

Miles labored within the Tennessee Valley space as an unbiased insurance coverage agent for Atlantic Coast Insurance coverage Co. From June 2017 to July this 12 months, he was working with Wilson Funeral Residence, a family- owned funeral house that has places in Fort Oglethorpe, Ringgold, Chickamauga and LaFayette, Georgia.

Sheriff Gary Sisk mentioned the sheriff's workplace was alerted to Miles' habits about two weeks in the past and has discovered seven circumstances of theft by deception and exploitation of an aged individual. There are about 28 extra victims, the sheriff believes.

Each of the fees are felonies because of the quantity allegedly stolen.

Sisk mentioned Tuesday afternoon that he would not know precisely how the Cherokee Indian Police Division discovered Miles or what steps the division took to search out him.

Sisk did say through the preliminary information convention on Aug. 9 that the Catoosa County Sheriff's Workplace knew Miles was within the Cherokee space on July 30.

The detective on the case, Tim Busby, had been within the space and the Catoosa County Sheriff's Workplace notified the Cherokee Indian Police Division in regards to the data they'd. Sisk mentioned that performed a job in Miles arrest.

Sisk additionally added that Miles was seen at Harrah's Cherokee Lodge and On line casino whereas in Cherokee.

As of Tuesday afternoon, Sisk mentioned his division nonetheless had seven definitive circumstances however a number of folks have come to the sheriff's workplace to go to about Miles and the case so extra costs are on the horizon.

Miles was additionally nonetheless in Cherokee awaiting extradition again to Catoosa County.

Contact Patrick Filbin at [email protected] or 423-757-6476.

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