Some area residents were caught up in a statewide fraud investigation. The Indiana Department of Workforce Development announced on Monday that the agency’s unemployment insurance fraud investigation task force examines claims of individuals who intentionally provide false, misreported or unreported information in order to fraudulently claim benefits. As a result of the task force’s investigations, local courts have found 37 people from across the state guilty of Unemployment Insurance Fraud

Four area residents were among those convicted. They are:

• Ty L. Bush, of Greenwood, was sentenced to three-years of probation and ordered to repay $16,679 for benefits fraudulently collected.

• Ricky L. Frye, Jr., of Bloomington, was sentenced to one-year of probation and ordered to repay $8,000 for benefits fraudulently collected.

• Michael A. Peclet, of Flat Rock, was sentenced to four-years in jail, three-years of probation and ordered to repay $31,849.50 for benefits fraudulently collected.

• Clay D. Snyder, of Shelbyville, was sentenced to one-year in jail, three-years of home detention, three-years of probation and ordered to repay $42,719.33 for benefits fraudulently collected.