The mayor of an El Paso County metropolis has been arrested on a cost of insurance coverage fraud – over a case that allegedly occurred earlier than her election final 12 months.
Isela Reyes, 41, the mayor of San Elizario, was accused of submitting a fraudulent insurance coverage declare – with a worth between $2,500 and $30,000 – in March of final 12 months. She was sworn into workplace simply months later in Might.
She was arrested by El Paso County sheriff’s detectives who had been assigned to the FBI West Texas Border Corruption Process Power. El Paso Instances reported that whereas the alleged fraud occurred earlier than Reyes was elected mayor, the FBI activity drive was concerned within the investigation as she is presently serving as a public official.
Reyes was booked in El Paso County Jail on a $25,000 bond.
In different fraud-related information, former Amtrak worker Lizette Berrios Lathon lately pleaded responsible to conspiring along with her husband to steal nearly $1 million in COVID-19-related unemployment insurance coverage advantages and for dishonestly acquiring greater than $63,000 in illness advantages.
