Linda Marks is a Florida psychic who has recently gained notoriety, not for her success as a psychic, but for her lengthy rap sheet. Marks was previously sued by over a dozen former clients who say she stiffed them out of over $1 million when they visited her Delray Beach business. She and her husband, James, pleaded guilty in December 2002 to reporting their car stolen to defraud their insurance company. They were placed on five years' probation.

A high school chemistry teacher is charged with insurance fraud and arson, after giving two failing students passing grades if they agreed to steal and burn her car so she could collect insurance money. Aldine Senior High School's Tramesha Lashon Fox was $20,000 behind on car payments.

A restaurant owner whose business was trampled by escaped elephants last month has reopened and revamped the eatery with a new name, "Restaurant where Elephants Have Been. " Restaurant owner Keum Taek-hoon said Monday she used the $18,000 insurance money she collected to remodel the restaurant, which now displays a sign featuring three elephants.

A 20-year old violinist is breathing much easier now that the 18th century violin she lost has been returned. Lindsay Deutsch says the instrument was stolen from her car last weekend while she was grocery shopping. Deutsch says, "I've been waiting my whole life to get an instrument of this quality, and for it to be gone like this, I didn't think I'd ever get this one back. " It was found Thursday in an alley by a man who was walking his dog. He took it police who kept to dust for fingerprints. The violin, made in 1742, was on loan from collector Peter Mandell, who says his insurance covered almost every possible contingency -- except theft from a vehicle. The instrument is one of only 30 still in existence that was handcrafted in Venice, Italy by the top violin maker of his time, Sanctus Seraphin. Though a fine violin, it is considered to be several notches below those made by Antonio Stradivari. Deutsch says, had the violin not been recovered, she was ready to work off the debt to pay Mandell for the instrument Her parents offered a $10,000 reward. If an investigation confirms his story, her father says he will give the money to the finder.

W. J. Brown - All Headline News Police arrested a 17-year-old Sammamish, Washington teen Tuesday they alledge was trying defraud his insurance company. Apparently the suspect didn't really like his aimed at junking his $42,000 2002 BMW M3 that much. . . He really wanted to upgrade to a new 2005 Bentley Continental GT coupe. According to Michael Chiu, a police spokesperson, the teen reported his expensive BMW stolen while working at his job at a restaurant in downtown Bellevue on Monday evening. The car was found by Snoqualmie police the next morning, at an unspecified location, and arrested four men, both young adults and juveniles, who were in the process of stripping the cars parts. The foursome were arrested for first-degree possession of stolen property. After their arrested they implicated the car's owner, who they claim wanted his BMW stolen so he could collect insurance money and buy the Bentley. The teenager was interviewed by police and released to his parents. Investigation details will be forwarded to the King County Prosecutor's Office for investigation of fraud. The Bentley 2005 Bentley Continental GT coupe, that the teen wanted, has a 552-horsepower engine and a top speed of 190 mph, runs about $159,000, nicely equiped.