The proprietor and supervisor of tow truck corporations in Bristol and Plainville has been charged with insurance coverage fraud, having been accused of appropriating tens of hundreds of dollars in overcosts.
Christopher Pio, 51, of 68 Brightwood Lane, Southington, faces two relys every of first-diploma larceny, insurance coverage fraud and failure To take automotivee of wrecker data, Collectively with one rely of conspiracy to commit first-diploma larceny, failure of a Motorcar restore store To current estimate and charging extreme wrecker costs.
Furthermore, the Division of Motor Automobiles has charged the 51-yr-previous with 27 relys of failure to conduct safety inspection and 5 relys of violating a automotive dealership registry requirements, amongst completely different offenses.
Pio, who was charged earlier this month, is free on $200,000 bond. He is scheduled To seem earlier than a decide in New Britain Superior Courtroom on Friday.
Based mostly on court docs, Pio owns Chris’ Auto Clinic, located at 16 Forestville Ave. in Plainville, and Auto Star, LLC., at 150 Pine St. in Bristol. Courtroom papers furtherly level out he manages Elite Collision Center, located at 213 Frederick St., Bristol. The proprietor of Elite Is understood as Inside the warrant, although judicial data on Thursday level outd he has not been charged.
In a single case, police allege, Pio appropriated about $20,000 in overcosts to himself and improperly doced providers rendered, “As properly as to a potential further quantity of $30,960.60….” In ancompletely different, in accordance to police, docation reveals “blatant overcharging totaling $34,684.38, As properly as to a potential further quantity of $63,407.77….”
“These invoices are a mere 17-month window of time into the seven yrs that Elite Collision Center has been working as a wrecker service enterprise,” investigators wrote Inside the warrant for Definitely one of many circumstances. “It is inconceivIn a …….