2 JAILED IN PROBE OF FRAUD RING.Byline: Sylvia L. Oliande Staff Writer GLENDALE - A chiropractor chiropractor a practitioner in chiropractic. chiropractor A health professional trained in chiropractic; chiropractors do not perform surgery or prescribe drugs; of 50,000 licensed chiropractors in the US, many practice 'straight' chiropractic, ie and a mechanic from the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. remained jailed Friday in lieu of $500,000 each, accused of participating in a car theft and insurance fraud ring that police said may extend to other states. Chiropractor Niloofar Javaherian, 34, of Encino and mechanic Rouhel Feinstein, 50, of Sherman Oaks are scheduled to be arraigned Monday on charges of insurance fraud, officials said. Javaherian was being held in Glendale jail, while Feinstein was being held in the jail ward at Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County/USC Medical Center for treatment of an undisclosed medical condition. Their arrests resulted from a month-long investigation launched by Glendale police looking into reports of stolen vehicles. Burbank and Los Angeles police, along with the FBI and National Insurance Crime Bureau "NICB" redirects here. NICB may also refer to the National Industrial Conference Board; see The Conference Board. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) is a North American non-profit membership organization located in Des Plaines, Illinois. eventually joined the probe. On Thursday, authorities searched the suspects' homes, two Van Nuys auto body shops, a Canoga Park pawnshop and Javaherian's Encino chiropractic chiropractic (kīrəprăk`tĭk) [Gr.,=doing by hand], medical practice based on the theory that all disease results from a disruption of the functions of the nerves. office. They recovered about $1 million worth of luxury cars apparently stolen from throughout Los Angeles County. ``We believe this is a very large-scale operation,'' Glendale police Sgt. Rick Young said. ``Definitely wider than California, and beyond. It takes time to gather all this and digest the evidence.'' Authorities said the group's members operated the insurance scam (SCSI Configured AutoMatically) A subset of Plug and Play that allows SCSI IDs to be changed by software rather than by flipping switches or changing jumpers. Both the SCSI host adapter and peripheral must support SCAM. See SCSI. by crashing into innocent motorists, then going to Javaherian, who filed inflated insurance claims and false medical reports on their behalf. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Glendale Police officers assists in the search of one of the homes of a fraud suspect in Sherman Oaks on Friday. Tim DeWitt/Special to the Daily News |
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