Federal Charges Expand in Minnesota Medicaid Fraud Probe
Federal prosecutors have expanded a sweeping investigation into Medicaid fraud tied to autism services and housing programs in Minnesota.
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The driver of the Toyota Camry was identified as Lao Vang, 24, of Hugo. The State Patrol said he was booked into the Hennepin County Jail on suspicion of DWI and criminal vehicular operation.
According to the Becker County Sheriff’s Office, the call came in at about 2:38 a.m. on December 20 to a residence on the 700 block of West Ash Avenue.
According to a criminal complaint, Mark Darrel Steffes is charged with first-degree sale of a controlled substance and first-degree possession of a controlled substance following an investigation by the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office.
Metro Transit Police said officers were dispatched shortly before 3:30 p.m. to a reported shooting involving a northbound METRO C Line bus near 36th Avenue North and Penn Avenue North.
The Anoka County Sheriff’s Office says the incident began Thursday just before 6 p.m., when the Emergency Communications center received a call from a homeowner in the 18800 block of Jasper Street NW.
Brandon Deshone Johnson, 27, is charged in Ramsey County with second-degree riot while armed with a dangerous weapon, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison or a $10,000 fine or both.
The incident happened just after 12:50 a.m. at an apartment building on the 700 block of Hamline Avenue in Saint Paul. Investigators say Kevin Dennis Hass, 37, of Saint Paul Park, and Ronald Darrell Vezina Jr., 49, of Saint Paul, waited inside the building’s vestibule.
According to federal court records, the latest cases involve alleged fraud in three state-administered Medicaid programs: the Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program for children with autism, the Housing Stabilization Services program and the Integrated Community Supports program.
Prosecutors charged a 36-year-old Brooklyn Park woman and her 35-year-old brother with second-degree murder in the killing of Michael D. Tucker.
Investigators say the shooting was captured on surveillance video and followed an earlier reported assault involving the victim and the shooter’s sister.
Ralohn Lorrane Hare, 35, is charged in Ramsey County with two felony counts of criminal vehicular homicide stemming from the Nov. 2 crash near Arlington Avenue East and Prosperity Avenue.
In a decision memo dated Dec. 12, the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office concluded that Officers Matthew Foy and Eric Jaworski acted lawfully when they shot Mychel Allan Stowers, 36, during an encounter on Nov. 9, 2024.
Saint Paul fire crews were dispatched around 12:44 a.m. to the 400 block of Cook Avenue East, where firefighters arrived to find heavy fire conditions on the front porch.
Police say a woman was walking across Mitchell Road in a marked crosswalk with her four children when a driver struck them and kept going. The woman was pulling some of the children in a wagon, which officers later found tipped over in the crosswalk.
Stevie Lopez Lindsey, of Minneapolis. is charged with two counts of second-degree murder with intent not premeditated and one count of first-degree assault involving great bodily harm.
Steven Fredrick Endsley is charged in Hennepin County with second-degree murder with intent, not premeditated, in connection with the death of a man he lived with inside a trailer.
Yusuf Ali Salat is accused of causing the woman’s death without intent while committing a second-degree assault and of possessing fifty grams or more of cocaine or methamphetamine while using or possessing a firearm.
Multiple callers reported someone pulling copper wire from the base of streetlights, noting that lights in the area were out. Callers said two people were involved and were last seen heading eastbound on Jessamine Avenue.
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