FBI Arrests Doctor Wanted in $4-Million Fraud Case

A doctor considered armed and dangerous after he allegedly tried to run over an FBI agent in September was arrested Thursday in Marina del Rey on charges of filing $4 million in fraudulent medical claims.

Dr. Stanley Furmanski, 54, a diagnostic neuroradiologist, is scheduled to appear today in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on 13 counts of mail fraud.

Federal agents arrested Furmanski in a Kinko’s store on Lincoln Boulevard as he made copies. Near him was a brown paper bag containing a loaded gun and his identification, authorities said.

“I really don’t think he expected this to happen,” FBI spokeswoman Laura Bosley said. “Thankfully, nobody was injured. It could have happened very differently.”

Five weapons were registered to Furmanski, a gun enthusiast, authorities said.

On Sept. 29, federal authorities were forced to let him escape in West Los Angeles after he tried to run over an agent and then drove down a one-way street the wrong way, Bosley said.

For the last four months, Furmanski has been living in an oceanfront home in Manhattan Beach while federal authorities went about seizing all his assets, Bosley said.

It is unclear why they didn’t arrest him when they seized valuables from that house in September.

More than $1 million in cash and other assets have been seized, including four private airplanes from airports in Santa Monica, Los Angeles and Indianapolis. Several bank accounts belonging to Furmanski have been frozen.

Furmanski, who has not practiced medicine since the late 1980s, had received nearly $70,000 a month from various claims for long-term disability insurance, the FBI said. He allegedly claimed that he had systemic sclerosis, a disease which his brother has, authorities said.

He filed the claims between 1986 and 1992, Bosley said.