Ah. Now a raid we reported earlier becomes clear.

U.S. Attorney Jane Duke says a Pine Bluff osteopath, Kelly Dean Shrum, has been indicted for giving patients an intrauterine device not approved for use in the U.S. and charging Medicaid for a more expensive version of the device, sold under the name Mirena.

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Shrum is charged with misbranding under the Food and Drug Act, health care fraud and three counts of money laundering for several transactions in excess of $10,000. Shrum transferred the money from an account into which Medicaid deposited reimbursements.

ALSO IN FEDERAL COURT: Duke announced the indictment of Tracy Clemons 44, of Quitman on 65 counts of mail fraud. A news release said he stole more than $350,000 worth of pine logs cut from Deltic Timber property by diverting it to other mills as timber supplied by his mother’s wood brokerage company.

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