The Region - News from May 1, 1985

Two people were arrested by California Highway Patrol investigators and charged with participating in an automobile insurance fraud ring alleged to have caused more than 50 staged accidents in Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties. Jorge Mirosian, 40, of Burbank and Amelia Carmen Sintoria, 38, of Los Angeles were charged with 11 felony counts each of insurance fraud, conspiracy and grand theft, a CHP spokesman said. Each was jailed in lieu of $250,000 bond. They and a third suspect, still at large, also are accused of smuggling Argentine soccer players into the country to play for local teams. The illegal aliens were coerced into providing the manpower for the ring, investigators said.