An insurance agent from Goldsboro, N.C., is accused of filing false applications for health insurance for 269 employees and nine companies that did not exist, resulting in commission payments totaling $67,451.76.

Edward Charles Harris, 32, was charged with five counts of obtaining property by false pretense, according to the North Carolina Department of Insurance.

Between March 2009 and September of 2009, Harris received the payments from Colonial Life Insurance Co. by presenting the false applications, regulators said.

Harris was processed at the Wayne County Jail on July 19 and placed under a $75,000 secured bond.