HOUSTON -- A family doctor faced felony charges in connection with several fires, KPRC Local 2 reported Thursday.

Arson investigators said Dr. David McClellan faces one count of insurance fraud after a three-year investigation of five fires.

The fires occurred over the past 10 years, including two at residential houses, a vacation home, a doctor's office and a Jaguar reported stolen and later found abandoned and burned in 2002.

After McClellan's northeast Harris County house burned in June 2004, he filed an insurance claim for two Rolex watches, valued at $40,000. But investigators said the doctor's ex-wife told them that she pawned the Rolexes and claimed her husband knew it.

Investigators said McClellan collected $50,000 for the Jaguar.

"Premium adjustments are set on fire risks. They are set on insurance risks so every false, fraudulent claim that goes in the system, we pay for it," said Dustin Deutsch, a Harris County arson investigator.

Officials said they are trying to build an arson case against the doctor in connection with the fires.

"One person is not going to have this many losses throughout their life through everything they touch," Deutsch said.

McClellan was the primary insurance holder, detectives said, and many of the blazes were deliberately set.

When police went to arrest McClellan on a probable cause affidavit, they learned he caught a flight to New Mexico Thursday morning. His whereabouts are unknown.

McClellan has been in trouble with authorities in the past.

His medical license was suspended earlier this summer after he allegedly sexually assaulted a female patient, according to the Texas Medical Board.

Local 2 Investigates caught up with the doctor a few days ago outside his Lake Houston family practice office in Crosby. Local 2 Investigates tried to ask the doctor why patients were still going in and out of his office.

"Can we talk to you real quick?" KPRC asked.

"I don't think so, seeing that the only thing y'all ever do is sensationalize things that aren't true," McClellan said. "You know exactly what I mean."

A mother who contacted the KPRC Local 2 Investigates team said she took her child to see McClellan at his office before she realized his license had been suspended. She worried about the care she received.

McClellan has been trying to get his medical license reinstated, but has failed.

When investigators approached McClellan about the fires, he said he was innocent. An attorney was not available for comment.

If convicted of insurance fraud, McClellan would lose his medical license permanently and could face between two and 20 years in prison.