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A Tampa man who allegedly gunned down another individual in the street last week was apprehended after a cooperative effort between the Tampa Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Service.According to investigators, Sergio Rashad Green and Glennis Leon Mays became...
A New York state medical device manufacturer has agreed to pay the federal government $12.5 million to settle claims made against it that it led medical providers to make false claims to Medicare, Medicaid, and other state-based health care programs. The Justice...
U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) last month sanctioned six men who authorities say operated a brutal human smuggling ring in war-torn Libya.Ermias Ghermay, Musab Abu Grein, Abd al-Rahman Milad, Mohamed Koshlaf, Abd al-Razzak...
A Jacksonville wound-care provider has agreed to pay up to $22.51 million in fines to settle federal charges that it fraudulently billed Medicare for medically-unnecessary treatments.Per Justice Department investigators, Healogics, Inc. submitted false claims to...
Deputies from the Hernando County Sheriff's Office say the execution of a warrant last week yielded a large quantity of cannabis plants and harvested cannabis prepared for distribution at a Brooksville home.Details were scarce, but the Sheriff's Office says it...
A Vero Beach man thought he had discovered a loophole to the state of Florida's DUI laws last week. Sadly, the law enforcement personnel he soon encountered were not quite as convinced as he at the legal reasoning he employed, leading to his arrest.Indian River County...
A Largo man authorities say fatally beat his neighbor last month was arrested last week and charged with his murder.Largo police say they were summoned to a local mobile home park on June 9 to respond to the report of an unconscious man. Upon their arrival, officers...
A trio of Texas medical professionals were convicted by a federal jury of charges relating to a home health care fraud scheme in which federal prosecutors say they were involved.Kelly Robinett, M.D., Kingsley Nwanguma, and Joy Ogwuegbu were convicted after a five-day...
A St. Petersburg man is facing drunk driving and homicide charges after authorities say he was intoxicated when he struck and killed a motorcyclist.Pinellas County prosecutors say Dylan Charles Baron was driving southbound on Fourth Street N late on June 25 when he...
Although there remains a question of jurisdiction, the boyfriend of a Hernando County park ranger whose body was discovered afloat in a waterway in Georgia will face charges related to her death.Per authorities, Mitzi Marie Babb was last seen on June 19, leading to a...
