A Cumberland County grand jury handed down indictments last weekfor three southern Maine men for crimes related to workers'compensation fraud.

Landon Logsdon, Ken Villella, and Peter Ronfeldt were indictedby the Cumberland County Superior Court's Grand Jury on Sept. 10.Each of the indicted men had been collecting workers' compensationinsurance payments from the Maine Employers' Mutual InsuranceCompany (MEMIC). When the insurer's investigations of the casesraised red flags, the company's investigators handed the cases overto the Attorney General's office.

Logsdon, who was indicted on one count of theft by deception,has been ordered by the Maine Workers' Comp Board to repay about$19,000 after a finding showed that he falsely reported an injuryto his employer and then attended training for another employerwhile supposedly being unable to work. He repeatedly misrepresentedhis injury to medical providers.

Villella, indicted on one count of theft by deception, wascollecting total disability payments under workers' compensationwhile allegedly working as a part-time carpenter. He continued torepresent that he was not working while collecting about$10,000.

Ronfeldt was indicted for one count of perjury, which is allegedto have occurred in a workers' compensation hearing, when hefalsely reported that he was not working for another employer.Ronfeldt had been out of work from his first employer whilecollecting total disability payments of about $5,000.