BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- A Bakersfield man who carried out two lengthy fraud schemes was sentenced Thursday to 16 years and four months in prison. Jacob McNabb, 33, was found guilty last month of 15 fraud-related counts. He devised two schemes, the first starting in 2016, when he intentionally got in vehicle collisions on four occasions then filed insurance claims. In each incident, McNabb received money for repairs but kept it instead of fixing his car — then when he got into another collision he claimed the preexisting damage was new, prosecutors said. The California Department of Insurance began an investigation after law enforcement noticed McNabb was involved in an unusually high number of collisions -- 40 over a six-year period. The second scheme, carried out from September 2015 to November 2019, involved filing false documents in lawsuits that began in Superior Court. In nine small claims cases, McNabb intentionally didn’t notify the people he was suing but claimed in court filings that they were properly served, prosecutors said. “As a result, he would be able to argue his case in court without letting the other victims give their side of the story,” prosecutors said. He won judgments and tried enforcing them — defrauding 15 people and one business.