A Los Angeles County-based vocational nurse was arrested last Friday on charges referred to as “white-collar crimes” by state prosecutors, after they say she stole more than $1.5 million from Medi-Cal.
Mariafe Concepcion Garcia, 58, was arrested by the California Attorney General’s Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud on May 1, after a felony warrant was issued for her arrest by a Los Angeles-based superior court judge on April 27.
Garcia was initially booked into custody at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s West Hollywood station the morning of May 1 before being transferred to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood that evening…