Earlier this week, a St. Louis, Missouri, man admitted to staging a series of vehicle accidents and injuries to defraud insurance companies, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Missouri.

Adrian Peebles pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud in connection with staged auto accidents that took place between September 2021 through January 2023.

The accidents usually place at night in remote areas to reduce the chances he’d get caught.

According to the FBI investigation conducted, Peebles often complained of injuries relating to the accidents and would go to the emergency room complaining of “non-determinative pain that required expensive tests that never identified any particular injury.”

Peebles insisted the resulting payments from the vehicle insurance companies be directed to him rather than the hospital and did not follow through on paying the medical providers. Two insurance companies lost a total of $107,951 to the fraudulent scheme.

He is scheduled to be sentenced on April 17.