Multi-agency investigation leads to arrest of 12 suspected sex predators
Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) officials were at the department’s Pensacola office Tuesday, March 12, to announce the arrests of 12 suspects charged with seducing a minor to engage in sexual conduct, traveling to meet a minor for sexual activity and use of a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony.
Florida Division of Emergency Management launches portal to assist Floridians in Haiti
The Florida Department of Emergency Management (FDEM) launched a portal to collect information from Floridians and other Americans who may be trapped in Haiti.
Florida Attorney General’s medical fraud control unit secures nearly $150K from medical equipment supplier
Attorney General Ashley Moody’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit secured nearly $150,000 through a multistate action against Lincare Inc., a durable medical equipment supplier. The action resolves allegations that Lincare knowingly submitted, or caused to be submitted, false claims to various government health care programs, including Medicaid, for conduct related to its rentals of non-invasive home ventilation devices.
CRAs could give residents more control without incorporating
Residents in the southeast corner of Santa Rosa County regularly debate two evergreen questions: Should some combination of Navarre, Navarre Beach and Holley incorporate? And second, should the county dredge a channel to the Gulf of Mexico?
