The Ellis County Press: North Texas Men Receive Lengthy Federal Prison Sentences for Role in Insurance Fraude Case Involving Arson

North Texas Men Receive Lengthy Federal Prison Sentences for Role in Insurance
Fraude Case Involving Arson
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives [atf@service.govdelivery.com] on 11/21/2011 17:26:00


Nov. 18, 2011
DALLAS – Blaise Hancock, of Arlington, Texas, and Clint Allen, of Lewisville,
Texas, were sentenced this morning by Chief U.S. District Judge Sidney A.
Fitzwater to 79 months and 51 months in federal prison, respectively, for
conspiring to fraudulently obtain insurance money by filing a claim for
insurance proceeds on a house fire that Allen had deliberately set in Dallas.
In addition, they were ordered to pay, jointly and severally, nearly $300,000 in
restitution and Allen was ordered to forfeit nearly $250,000. Judge Fitzwater
ordered that they surrender the Bureau of Prisons on January 3, 2012. Today's
announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern
District of Texas.
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