COWETA COUNTY, Ga. – A Coweta County car mend store operator faces fraud prices. Deputies say the lady billed insurance coverage corporations for perform that was hardly ever performed.

Deputies are encouraging victims to occur ahead if they too have been scammed by Courtney Jenkins Gour and Filthy South Diesel and Automotive. So considerably they’ve determined more than 40 victims. Some clients paid in advance for work opportunities that had been possibly never ever started or concluded.

Gour was booked into the Coweta County Jail billed with insurance fraud and theft by getting.

Coweta County deputies say they started off taking reports again in January of victims who say Gour’s fix shop was intended to fix their motor vehicles, but hardly ever did. Deputies say some small organization homeowners who depended on their diesel trucks have gone under although waiting for repairs that in no way happened.

Deputies say 1 insurance policies business paid out $50,000 for truck repair service, only to uncover that the truck had been sitting at the corporations for just about a yr and was never fixed.

It’s a joint investigation amongst the Coweta County Sheriff’s Business office, Newnan Police Section, and the Georgia Insurance policies and Hearth Protection Commissioner.

They say Gour has lately operated three nearby corporations: Dirty South Diesel, Soiled South Diesel and Automotive and Dirty South Diesel and Customized. There may well be businesses outside the house of Georgia as well.

Shopper of Dirty South Diesel who feel they were ripped off must make contact with the sheriff’s business office, investigator say. Since of the numerous potential victims, investigators say they are turning all the circumstances about to the district attorney’s office environment for long run indictments.