A Waterloo man who crashed his car while fleeing state troopers in 2021 has been sentenced for submitting an insurance claim for the wreck, according to the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier. Khalil Crawley told his mother’s insurance carrier that he was going 65mph near Jewell when he slid on ice and went into a ditch. Liberty Mutual paid Crawley’s mother nearly $10,000 in benefits and the city of Jewell paid $1,000 for medical costs. A year later the insurance carrier discovered that Crawley was actually attempting to elude police at the time of the crash. Crawley was going 92mph when the Iowa State Patrol attempted to pull him over. The chase reached speeds of 138mph before the car crashed and rolled. Crawley’s front seat passenger was ejected from the car on impact. Crawley was cited for Speeding and Failure to Yield. He now has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of third degree Theft and received a deferred judgment, meaning if he completes two years of probation, the case will be removed from his record.
