Through our work with Crime Stoppers, we have made innovative changes and streamlined services to make it easier and more enticing for Floridians to help solve crimes.
Last year, we nearly doubled the amount of reward money for tipsters who provide information that leads to an arrest in a homicide case. We also enhanced the Crime Stoppers app that allows two-way anonymous communication with Crime Stoppers through text messaging and image sharing.
To further streamline the reporting process, we created the first-of-its-kind statewide tip line: **TIPS. Now, anyone can send anonymous information from anywhere in the state by simply dialing six buttons on a cellphone (**8477). Crime Stoppers USA recently adopted our program and put it to use nationwide!
Enlisting citizens in the fight against crime not only increases public safety, but it also empowers community members. We know that law enforcement can’t be everywhere, and that is why it is important that citizens share what they know.
Working with Crime Stoppers, we have made anonymous reporting easier than ever before and that is helping us solve crimes, save lives and build a Stronger, Safer Florida.
In The News
Florida AG Ashley Moody: NYC Health Dept. ads empowering ‘safe’ drug use are ‘deadly’, New York Post
Attorney General Moody Announces Arrests of a Nurse and the Mother of a Medicaid Recipient for Ripping Off Medicaid Program, EIN News
Wire-fraud victims could be eligible to receive reimbursement, Moody says, ABC 9 Orlando
Deadline for Floridians scammed out of money to file for potential reimbursement is July 1, FOX 35 Orlando
Florida Attorney General: 'Beware of new scam offering free gift for paying bill on time', CBS News Miami
Warning for Floridians: Watch out for ‘free gift’ text message scheme, NBC 8 Tampa
Scammers offering ‘free gifts’ in exchange for information, WWSB Sarasota
Protecting Floridians
Attorney General Moody Announces Arrests of a Nurse and the Mother of a Medicaid Recipient for Ripping Off Medicaid Program
Attorney General Ashley Moody announced the arrests of a nurse and the mother of a Medicaid recipient for bilking more than $100,000 from Medicaid. Throughout several months, Myoka Bowens, a licensed practical nurse, worked with a Medicaid recipient’s mother, Jazmin Raulerson, to swindle the Medicaid program by falsifying progress notes for time overseeing a high-risk infant.
Attorney General Ashley Moody said, “Not only did these women scheme to rip off Florida taxpayers, but they also exploited an infant’s illness in the process. I am proud of the work of my Medicaid Fraud Control Unit to uncover their plot to steal more than $100,000 from this taxpayer-funded program and bring these suspects to justice.” Read More