U.S. Attorney’s Office March
03, 2014 • Western District of Oklahoma (405) 553-8700
OKLAHOMA CITY—Clinton Ivan
Rutledge, 42, of Woodward, Oklahoma, was sentenced last week to serve 10 days
of weekend imprisonment and three years of supervised probation after pleading
guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, announced Sanford C. Coats, United
States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. In addition, Rutledge was
ordered to pay $21,163.63 in restitution to Farmers Insurance Group and serve
104 hours of community service.
On October 10, 2013, a federal
grand jury indicted Rutledge and Christopher Dean Noreuil, 40, also from
Woodward, charging them with conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Specifically, it
was alleged that in January 2013, Rutledge asked Noreuil to take and hide
Rutledge’s 2004 Ford F-250 pickup truck and 1999 TexMex flatbed trailer to make
it appear that the truck and trailer had been stolen. Rutledge then reported
the truck and trailer as stolen to the police and filed a false and fraudulent
insurance claim with his insurer, Farmers Insurance Group. As a result, Farmers
Insurance paid more than $21,000 on the false claim. Rutledge is a former
Woodward Police Department officer and a former reserve deputy for the Woodward
County Sheriff’s Office.
On October 20, 2013, Rutledge
pled guilty to knowingly conspiring with others to commit mail fraud. United
States District Judge Joe Heaton sentenced Rutledge to serve 10 days of weekend
imprisonment, three years of probation supervised by the United States
Probation Office, serve 104 hours of community service, and pay $21,163.63 in
restitution to Farmers Insurance Group.
Noreuil pled guilty on November
19, 2013, and is awaiting sentencing.
This case was the result of an
investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was prosecuted
by Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Maxfield Green.
