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Woman's body found in woods off State Road 574
By Times Staff Writer
Published February 18, 2005
MANGO - Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies discovered a body while looking for vagrants in woods off State Road 574.
The deputies, members of the street crimes unit, found the body - identified only as a white female - east of Highview Road, the Sheriff's Office said.
The body appeared to have been there for several days. Investigators were trying to determine the identity and cause of death.
Inmate caught after brief escape from hospital
TAMPA - A Hillsborough County jail inmate who had been taken to Tampa General Hospital escaped briefly on Thursday, but was quickly recaptured.
Shawn Flynn, 48, had been arrested on a violation of probation charge Wednesday. After he arrived in jail that day, he complained of feeling ill and was taken to Tampa General. About 12:30 p.m. Thursday he ran past a sheriff's deputy on the seventh floor and made it out of the hospital. He was recaptured nearby.
Afterward, he was taken to the Orient Road Jail and booked on a new charge of escape.
Man charged with patient brokering at medical clinic
The Statewide Prosecutor's Office has charged St. Petersburg resident Michael A. Griffin with patient brokering.
Griffin, 50, is accused of soliciting patients to undergo various procedures at the North Tampa Medical Clinic in return for payment.
Griffin, of 2515 19th St. S in St. Petersburg, told potential patients that they could get $100 a visit plus a $50 debit card to use at Kash n' Karry, according to court documents. All they had to do is undergo an infusion procedure.
Griffin also told an undercover state agent that he'd be paid an additional $30 if he accepted a free massage from the clinic, the undercover agent wrote in his affidavit
Griffin engaged in the illegal conduct between Dec. 1 and Jan. 20, the documents stated.
It is illegal, in most cases, to offer payment in exchange for using a particular medical facility's services, even if the patient needs the treatment. The practice is commonly referred to as patient brokering. The medical facility often then bills Medicare or Medicaid for the services.
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