Brazen big-rig crash scheme nets another federal guilty plea in New Orleans
From nola.com:
A 30-year-old New Orleans woman is the latest defendant to plead guilty in a brazen, years-long scheme to fill cars with willing passengers and crash them into big rigs for the insurance payouts.
Chandrika Brown pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in New Orleans to a conspiracy to commit mail fraud. She became the 29th of 40 defendants over a half-dozen indictments to admit to charges stemming from a federal investigation dubbed Operation Sideswipe.
Brown confessed that a friend, Doniesha Gibson, enlisted her to be a passenger in Gibson’s Dodge Avenger on Oct. 15, 2015, when “slammer” Cornelius Garrison took the wheel, headed east on Interstate 10 and collided with a Hotard bus in New Orleans East.
