State Police have arrested a 21-year-old Monroe man for allegedly staging multiple car crashes and collecting thousands of dollars in fraudulent insurance claims. Senior Trooper Ryan Davis says they started their investigation in February, after the Louisiana Department of Insurance alerted them that Adrian Sampson was involved in insurance fraud.
“They uncovered a series of fraudulent crashes, beginning in May of 2024 and ending in September of 2025,” Davis said.
Davis says as the investigation progressed, investigators learned that Sampson had planned, staged and orchestrated crashes to file fraudulent insurance claims.
“So, it wasn’t ‘Oh, I got in a crash accidentally and I received an insurance payout.’ These were pre-meditated, for the sole purpose of fraudulently gaining money for personal gain,” Davis explained.
Davis says Sampson potentially gained $156,000 from the victims of his fraudulent claims. He’s facing 49 felony counts of racketeering, insurance fraud, criminal damage to property, and staged crashes.
“It was a very large amount of crashes. And our investigators are still currently trying to identify further crashes that may stem from Mr. Sampson,” Davis said.
Anyone with information regarding this matter should contact the State Police Insurance Fraud-Auto Theft Unit in Monroe at 318-362-4588.
