Four people have been arrested in what Hialeah police called a large-scale automobile insurance fraud investigation.
Hialeah police said Edwin Rodriguez, Rafael Rico, Eduardo Valdes-Murguido and Janet Alonso-Rico were arrested on multiple counts of grand theft and insurance fraud.
Investigators said they have identified 50 victims so far.
"Their crimes would begin at an accident scene and end up at one of their own auto body repair shops," Hialeah police spokesman Carl Zogby said in a news release Thursday. "They would collect thousands of dollars from the insurance companies while never repairing the damaged vehicles."
Hialeah police said the suspects took hundreds of thousands of dollars from insurance companies and drivers.