Seniors Indicted on Insurance Fraud Charge

Three Monmouth County women were indicted on charges related to what authorities said was several years of insurance fraud.

Andrea Regn, 41, of Neptune was charged with theft by deception in the third degree for obtaining more than $500 by deception from the Monmouth County Division of Social Services located in Freehold from August 2005 to July 2007, the indictment states.

Regen was indicted alongside Grace Katchen, 73, of Ocean and Marion Gualtieri, 75, of Oceanport.

The grand jury found enough evidence to accuse Gualtieri of making false statements and/or omitting relevant details on her Aetna renewal forms from December 2005 to December 2010.

Katchen was charged with second-degree insurance fraud for allegedly falsifying information and/or leaving out relevant facts on her Aetna renewal forms from January 2005 to December 2010, which garnered her more than $1,000 in benefits, the indictment states.