Published: 01/02/2008
Police: Two arrested, three wanted in latest fake accident
By Zach Church
Staff writer
METHUEN - Nearly six years ago, Leo Lopez and Elsa Moure put their 6-year-old son in a Lexus and staged an accident, police said.
Sunday night, Lopez, 27, of 30 Hancock St., Lawrence, was arrested at a New Hampshire nightclub and charged with endangering a child and making a false insurance claim, as well as larceny and conspiracy. Moure, 27, of 12 Bourque St., Lawrence, was arrested Friday and faces the same charges.
Now Lawrence and Methuen police are searching for three other people involved in the Jan. 16, 2002, crash at the intersection of Railroad and Grove streets. Collectively, the five are suspected of having bilked insurance companies out of more than $59,000.
Methuen police now have notified the state Department of Social Services that Lopez and Moure put their son, now 12, in a dangerous environment.
The 8:27 p.m. crash between Lopez's 1992 Lexus, driven by Rudy Vasquez, now 33, of 36 Brown St., and a 1995 Honda driven by Joel Rosario, now 24, of 60 Buswell St., Lawrence, saw four people, including the young boy, taken to local hospitals. Later, medical and vehicle insurance claims were filed and honored.
Police are now looking for Vasquez, Rosario and Honda passenger Kimberly Shepard, now 28, of 616 Union St., Manchester, N.H. All are wanted on charges of larceny, conspiracy and making a false insurance claim.
Shepard and Vasquez are believed to be in the Manchester, N.H., area. Rosario is believed to be in Florida. Lawrence police Chief John Romero said other passengers in the accident were spared criminal charges in exchange for cooperating with investigators.
This is the second time Lopez has been charged in connection with a staged accident. He was arrested previously in the fall of 2006 and is awaiting trial in that case. Lopez and Moure now join more than 240 other people charged with auto insurance fraud since police began to focus on an epidemic that led to high insurance rates, untold false claims and at least one death.
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