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VietnameseGriffin: ‘My office will continue to pursue those who commit Medicaid fraud and take advantage of our vulnerable population’
LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued the following statement announcing two Medicaid fraud convictions and one arrest:
Convictions
On June 9, 2025, Tameka Collins, 38, of Eudora pleaded guilty to one count of Medicaid fraud, a Class ‘C’ felony, and was ordered to pay a $500 fine, court costs, and restitution in the amount of $2,646.87 to the Medicaid Program, and serve 24 months of Suspended Imposition Sentence (SIS). Collins claimed to have provided personal care services to Medicaid recipients while she was working at the Arkansas Department of Corrections.
On June 9, 2025, Takobe Larry, 19, of Arkadelphia pleaded guilty to one count of abuse of adults, a Class ‘D’ felony, and ordered to pay a $700 fine, court costs, and serve 36 months of SIS. Larry was arrested after he was caught on camera using a utility vehicle to purposely run into and cause injury to a resident of the Arkadelphia Human Development Center.
Arrest
On June 12, 2025, Monica Heaggans, 55, of Little Rock was arrested and charged with exploitation of an endangered or impaired person, a Class ‘B’ felony. Heaggans allegedly took thousands of dollars from an endangered person with reduced mental faculties.
“My office will continue to pursue those who commit Medicaid fraud and take advantage of our vulnerable population. I would like to commend our Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) for its outstanding work and its unwavering commitment to protecting Arkansans. And I especially want to thank Special Agent Brandon Muldrow, Special Agent Laura Glover, and Assistant Attorneys General Gabrielle Davis-Jones and David Jones for their excellent work on these cases. I am also grateful to Prosecuting Attorney for the 6th Judicial District Will Jones, who secured Collins’ conviction, and Prosecuting Attorney for the 9th East Judicial District Dan Turner, who secured Larry’s conviction.”
The Arkansas MFCU receives 75% of its funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under a grant totaling $4,685,736 for the Federal fiscal year 2025, of which $3,514,304 is federally funded. The remaining 25%, totaling $1,171,432 for State Fiscal Year 2025, is funded by Arkansas General Revenue.
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About Attorney General Tim Griffin
Tim Griffin was sworn in as the 57th Attorney General of Arkansas on January 10, 2023, having previously served as the state’s 20th Lieutenant Governor from 2015-2023. From 2011-2015, Griffin served as the 24th representative of Arkansas’s Second Congressional District, where he served on the House Committee on Ways and Means, House Armed Services Committee, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, House Committee on Ethics and House Committee on the Judiciary while also serving as a Deputy Whip for the Majority.
Griffin is currently an officer in the Arkansas Army National Guard and holds the rank of colonel. Griffin served as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps for more than 28 years. In 2005, Griffin was mobilized to active duty as an Army prosecutor at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and served with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in Mosul, Iraq.
His previous assignments include serving as the Commander of the 2d Legal Operations Detachment in New Orleans, Louisiana; the Commander of the 134th Legal Operations Detachment at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; and as a Senior Legislative Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness at the Pentagon. Griffin earned a master’s degree in strategic studies as a Distinguished Honor Graduate from the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania.
Griffin also served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Political Affairs for President George W. Bush; Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Arkansas; Senior Investigative Counsel, Government Reform and Oversight Committee, U.S. House of Representatives; and Associate Independent Counsel, Office of Independent Counsel David M. Barrett, In re: HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros.
Griffin is a graduate of Magnolia High School, Hendrix College in Conway, and Tulane Law School in New Orleans. He attended graduate school at Oxford University. He is admitted to practice law in Arkansas (active) and Louisiana (inactive). Griffin lives in Little Rock with his wife, Elizabeth, a Camden native, and their three children.
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