A New Jersey man involved in a stolen motorcycle ring who admitted to providing a document with fictitious insurance company information was sentenced to two years of probation.

Steven A. Capers, 26, of Willingboro, N.J., pleaded guilty in September 2009 to tampering with public records, according to the New Jersey Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor.

Capers admitted that between June 4, 2004, and July 14, 2006, he falsified a motor vehicle registration application by providing a fake insurer on the document.

Capers was the last of nine people to plead guilty as part of an investigation conducted by the New Jersey State Police and the Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor into a ring of people who were stealing motorcycles, retagging them with new vehicle identification numbers, and selling them.

In some instances, they were submitting phony claims representing they had been stolen when, in fact, they had been given up by their owners.

This story originally appeared in the February 2010 print edition of Insurance & Financial Advisor.