Five Tampa Bay area residents are facing charges due to an alleged billion-dollar telemedicine scheme. Starting in 2015, the men and their pharmacy companies are accused of setting up an elaborate scheme that fraudulently solicited insurance coverage information and prescriptions from tens of thousands of consumers across the country, according…
A Gainesville barber was one of seven men arrested in a Volusia County internet sex sting. The 34-year-old was arrested at a RaceTrac station in Deltona over the weekend. He allegedly told Volusia County sheriff’s deputies he only came to the meeting place because he believed it was an undercover…
Three high school students were arrested on campus Thursday on Ocala and accused of possessing marijuana-laced cookies/brownies. Two of the students are 17, and the third is 18. Each is charged with possession of marijuana more than 20 grams. One of the younger teens has an additional charge of possession…
A Clearwater doctor has pleaded guilty to one count of health-care fraud and has agreed to surrender her DEA registration number, her Florida medical license and to a permanent exclusion from Medicare and Medicaid programs, according to the justice department. The 66-year-old woman violated a Florida law that requires doctors…
An undercover drug sting that began in March led to the arrest of a St. Augustine man accused of running a drug house on Grove Avenue, according to reports. The 29-year-old was arrested Tuesday on a warrant charging him with selling heroin from his home, which is within 1,000 feet…
A Florida man is facing sex crimes charges after he was accused of a molesting a Flagler County teenager in January. Flagler County deputies were apparently contacted Jan. 4 about a sex offense in Palm Coast. They investigated and claim the man allegedly molested a child between 12-18 years old.…
A Fort Lauderdale doctor has been sentenced to 19 years and seven months in federal prison for distributing prescription painkillers. The man was sentenced Monday following a conviction in June of dispensing oxycodone outside the usual course of professional practice and for no legitimate medical reason. Investigators claim the 64-year-old…
A former Jacksonville Jaguars player faces insurance fraud charges linked to dental treatment authorities said he never received. Marlon McCree is accused of filing nearly $78,000 in bogus insurance claims, according to reports. McCree allegedly received $31,000 in reimbursements as a result. McCree, 41, turned himself into the Nassau County…
A Key West firefighter was caught with cocaine at work, according to police. The 26-year-old was arrested Friday on a felony charge of cocaine possession after a police dog alerted officers to a locker inside a bedroom where the man was staying. The K-9 also sniffed out the man’s truck…
A former Hillsborough County teacher arrested last week on charges of probation violation has had the charge dismissed. The 39-year-old was in court Tuesday for a hearing that she violated her probation for taking pictures with a friend’s 12-year-old daughter in a Clearwater Beach restaurant. A judge dismissed the violation…