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Police Updates: Woman, Man Shot Dead; Medicaid Fraud Arrest; Pedestrian Struck, Critical

• New Haven police found a 44-year-old woman shot to death in the head inside a 1423 Quinnipiac Ave. apartment at 11:41 p.m. Saturday, according to police spokesperson Capt. Anthony Duff. He did not immediately have other details to report.

• Hamden police report that two men were shot on Goodrich Street Saturday around 8:45 p.m. One, John Ratliff, 28, of Hamden, died from his wound. A second man, who’s 23 and from Hamden, was shot in the arm and is at Yale New Haven Hospital, according to Capt. Ronald Smith.

• The New Haven Board of Education has placed an Adult Basic Education employee on leave after the FBI arrested him for allegedly engaging in numerous instances of Medicaid fraud by billing for psychotherapy sessions that were never provided,” mayoral spokesperson Gage Frank reported in a release. The employee’s work devices have been seized by New Haven Public Schools Security. New Haven Public Schools security cut off [his] access to personal information, access to New Haven Public Schools facilities and seized his equipment on August 28, 2020 in response to the federal investigation.”

In a separate release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office reported that the employee allegedly billed Medicaid for having provided more than 24 hours of psychotherapy services on 67 different dates between January 1 and April 4, 2020. He also billed Medicaid for having provided 60-minute psychotherapy sessions to each of 44 patients every day from February 13 to March 19, 2020. In addition, he billed Medicaid for providing psychotherapy services while he was on a cruise to the Bahamas in July 2019.”

The employee also allegedly billed Medicaid for fraudulent psychotherapy services for employees of Inspirational Care, Inc., a company [he] owns that has provided in-home and community-based services to individuals with disabilities. Through Inspirational Care and a subsidiary, KEYS Program, Inc., [he] has operated group homes in five locations in Connecticut, including residences for women and children who may be victims of domestic abuse or violence. [He] required residents of the group homes to provide copies of Medicaid identification cards for themselves and their children when they signed housing agreements. He then fraudulently billed Medicaid for psychotherapy services that were never provided to residents of two group homes in Hartford, and their children.” And as an Adult basic ed guidance counselor, the arrestee allegedly accessed a computer database to obtain students’ dates of birth and Social Security numbers, then used that information to identify students who were insured by Medicaid. He then billed Medicaid for psychotherapy services that were never provided to those students.”

• A 32-year-old pedestrian was taken to the hospital in critical condition after a Mercedes Benz struck him. The crash occurred Thursday around 8 p.m.

A 36-year-old woman was driving the Mercedes northbound on Sherman Parkway when she hit the pedestrian between Harding Place and Ford Street, Duff wrote in a release. The impact of the collision sent the pedestrian over the Mercedes and onto the street. The Mercedes operator pulled over to the side of the roadway and remained at the scene. Officers are investigating if a second northbound vehicle then struck the injured victim in the roadway. The second vehicle fled the scene and was last seen continuing northbound on Sherman Parkway toward Hamden.”

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