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seemed to stop for no apparent reason, causing a truck pulling a trailer to hit his vehicle.
According to the District Attorney's Office, the investi- gation uncovered about 23 colli- sions linked to 17 insurance claims filed by Christopher, all with videos post- ed to the channel. Investigators also found 42 videos linked to road rage incidents and attempted collisions involv- ing the 40-year- old.
Christopher was charged with six counts of assault with a deadly weapon, 11 counts of insur- ance fraud and five felony counts of child endanger- ment. Kimberly was charged with
two counts of felony child endangerment and one count of insurance fraud.
Prosecutors said the couple had their child in the car for many of the collisions.
Christopher was previously charged with one count of assault with a deadly weapon and another count of causing a vehicle collision for the purpose of pre- senting a false claim following his arrest last month.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department arrested the cou- ple again on Wednesday. They are each being held on $500,000 bail.
By
Matthew Rodriguez
A Yucaipa couple has been arrested for allegedly causing intention- al collisions in an attempt to defraud insurance companies.
According
to the San Bernardino District Attorney's office, Christopher Phelps and his wife Kimberly Phelps posted dashcam videos of the crashes on a Youtube chan- nel under the
name
of "BLU3 GHO57." The channel had approximately 162 dashcam videos featuring, collisions, attempted or near collisions and road rage inci- dents.
The California Department of Insurance began an investigation after discovering the channel and after Christopher was involved in a "suspicious colli- sion" where he
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