Florida ALF News This Week
Published: Fri, 10/18/19
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Prosecutors in the Florida Keys dropped charges against a Miami Beach doctor accused in an aggravated elderly abuse case in Monroe County. Charges are still pending against the woman accused of operating the two facilities in question.
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THORNTON, Colo. -- A grandmother is without her wheels after thieves made off with her recumbent trike valued at $6,000. It was stolen from outside her assisting living home.
“There’s a very steep downhill and we just go screaming down that hill. It’s so much fun,” Cynthia Ziegler said.
At 88 years old, Ziegler is still a kid at heart. She loves to feel the wind blow through her hair while riding her red, three-wheeled trike.
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Marcus Lloyd Anderson, 34, used employees’ identities to collect money from Medicaid for services never rendered, a federal indictment says.
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Pasco County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 36 year old Florida man for battery when he allegedly punched a fellow assisted-living facility resident for taking too long in the bathroom.
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Numerous South Florida professionals were charged by federal authorities with participating in a $2.1 billion scheme to defraud Medicare by ordering unnecessary genetic cancer tests for elderly victims.
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A former Florida police sergeant and his wife are accused of stealing more than $300,000 from his mother, who was later evicted from her assisted living facility for failure to pay.
Steven Braddock, 49, turned...