‘Junkie hunters’ lured addicts to scam ‘sober home’ in $58 million fraud, feds say
A flat bungalow parked on a crab-grass lawn less than two miles from the beach in suburban South Florida – that’s where, from 2011 to 2014, many a struggling addict hoped they would find their happy ending. For those years, the location housed Halfway There, a sober home geared for 20-somethings trying to shake loose from addiction.