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TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced the arrest of a Broward County nurse formerly employed by South Florida Pediatric Homecare, Inc. in Ft. Lauderdale. Samantha Prince was arrested today by law enforcement officers with the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit on charges she defrauded the state Medicaid program out of more than $4,000.

Prince, 27, is a registered nurse and a resident of Pembroke Pines. Acting on information received by South Florida Pediatric Homecare, Inc., the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit’s investigation revealed Prince submitted more than $4,000 in false claims to the Medicaid program for services not provided during February 2009.

Prince has been charged with one count of grand theft, a third-degree felony. If convicted, she faces up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. The case will be prosecuted through the State Attorney’s Office for the 11th Judicial Circuit.