The owner of a Hummer vehicle found buried in rural Alabama will have some explaining to do when he returns home, the local sheriff said after crews used a backhoe to unearth the vehicle this week.
“We had our suspicions all along,” Washington County Sheriff Richard Stringer said, according to an Alabama TV news report. “We had a vehicle in the last few months that led us to believe that this individual was doing a lot of insurance fraud.”
The Hummer, a 2006 H2 model, had been buried for six years near Tibbie, in southwest Alabama. Owner Bruce Eugene Parnell Parnell received $22,000 on the Hummer insurance claim after reporting it stolen years ago, authorities said. It was one of 16 insurance claims had made over the years, the sheriff pointed out.
“We have been looking for this vehicle for several months. We got some tips a few months ago and we just been working on it,” Stringer said.
Parnell was out of town but the sheriff said the man will have some questions to answer and could face charges, now that the Hummer has been found exhumed.
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