A Gwinnett County elementary school teacher faces an insurance fraud charge after she allegedly received more than $12,000 in disability pay she wasn't entitled to, Channel 2 Action News reports.
Doshia Dianetta Mears, a 4th-grade teacher at Anderson Livsey Elementary School in Snellville, was charged in an arrest warrant dated last Thursday with receiving $12,739.87 in disability while she was actually working.
The warrant taken out by the Georgia Department of Insurance says the offense occurred in August of last year, the same month the school district said it hired Mears.
The warrant says the Duluth resident committed insurance fraud “by receiving disability payments while gainfully employed by Gwinnett County schools.”
A spokesman for the insurance department said the case was ongoing and could not provide additional details.
Gwinnett school officials said Mears went on medical leave last month. She is free on bond while awaiting trial. Channel 2’s efforts to contact her were unsuccessful Monday.
A spokesman for the Gwinnett schools said the district’s Human Resources Department became aware of the state investigation a couple of weeks ago and is conducting its own investigation.
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