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Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr[/caption] A contingent of law enforcement officials announced Tuesday that they have dismantled an organized ring of predators allegedly stealing benefits payments from the elderly, and subjecting them to neglect and starvation. “This started with a tip from concerned citizens,” Attorney General Chris Carr said during a news conference at the Judicial Building across the street from the Capitol, which his office broadcast live on Facebook. “If something doesn’t seem right, please tell somebody.” “Our citizens have been told, ‘If you see something, say something,’" Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards told the group. The first arrest came after residents in Albany reported that their elderly neighbors were begging for food. They lived in nearby apartments that Michelle Oliver, 39, had rented and allegedly used as an unlicensed personal care home under the name Miracle One Care Center, according to Carr’s news release. “This is about stealing the benefits of the elderly,” Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vernon Keenan said during the news conference. The Dougherty DA and the GBI worked with the attorney general’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia to shut down the company’s operations in Albany, Forsyth, Macon and Suwanee, official said. They announced they had also arrested and charged Harold Hunt, 56, in Suwanee for acting as a Social Security payee for the victims. Instead of using their income to care for them, he was sending it to Oliver and keeping a cut, Carr said. They also announced charges against a nurse practitioner, Cynthia Riley, 51. Carr said Hunt was transporting the victims to Riley in South Carolina for injections of psychotropic medications and other prescriptions. The residents reported they received no other medical care, Carr said. The AG thanked South Carolina law enforcement officials for their help with the case. A spokesman for Carr did not yet have a record of defense counsel for the those arrested. “Abuse, neglect or exploitation of older or at-risk adults will not be tolerated,” Carr said. “We will investigate and prosecute anyone engaging in these criminal activities in our state, and we will hold the abusers accountable. I am very proud of our Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and all of the statewide partners who played a part in dismantling this horrific elder abuse scheme—especially the witnesses who cared enough to report this suspicious behavior to their local law enforcement officials.”