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Sober-home operator faces patient-brokering charges

Traffickers Beware! –

March 30, 2018 – WEST PALM BEACH — A woman identified by police as the operator of a Delray Beach sober home is charged with receiving at least $65,800 to refer residents to the London Treatment Center in West Palm Beach, whose owners were arrested last year by Palm Beach County’s Sober Home Task Force. Betsy Dieujuste, 36, of Boca Raton was booked Thursday evening into the Palm Beach County Jail, charged with 33 counts of patient brokering. The charge is a third-degree felony, punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $50,000. In court Friday morning, Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Charles Burton set Dieujuste’s bond at $15,000 bond along with supervised release. Prosecutors had asked for $75,000.

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