OLYMPIA, Wash. — A Bothell man has been added to Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s Insurance Fraud Most Wanted list.

Clinton Jonathan ‘Sonny’ Behrends failed to appear at his arraignment after being charged by the King County Prosecutor’s Office with two counts of first-degree identity theft and one count of first-degree theft. A bench warrant was issued for his arrest on August 24.

On July 2, 2021, the Insurance Commissioner’s Criminal Investigations Unit received a phone call from one of Behrends’ former clients. The client stated that he was injured in a serious vehicle collision in 2017, after which he hired Clinton Behrends as legal representation.

In 2019, the client went online and learned that USAA had settled his claim in 2018 for $150,000. The client contacted Behrends about the settlement, and Behrends offered to pay him $7,000.