Woman Serves 45 Days for Tenn Care Fraud

September 11, 2018
By: Dwayne Page

A woman indicted last year for Tenn Care Fraud in an undercover drug investigation was sentenced Monday in DeKalb County Criminal Court

52 year old Debra Ann Grimmett entered a plea to Tenn Care Fraud and Sale of a Schedule II drug (Hydrocodone). She received a six year sentence in the Hydrocodone case and four years for Tenn Care Fraud to run concurrently as one six year term. She is on TDOC probation after serving 45 days in the DeKalb County Jail. She was fined $2,000 and must make restitution of $75.13 to the Office of the Tenn Care Inspector General. She was given 45 days of jail credit from July 26 to September 10, 2018.

Grimmett was one of 40 persons named in sealed indictments returned by a special session of the DeKalb County Grand Jury during the summer of 2017

Sheriff Patrick Ray said at the time that officers of his department appeared before the Grand Jury and presented cases against each offender as the result of an undercover investigation. “A variety of drugs were bought during this operation including Xanax, Hydrocodone, Marijuana, Methamphetamine, Subutex, and others,” he said.

“We tried to focus this operation on methamphetamine. We had received information that methamphetamine had been coming up here from Georgia and not only into our county but also other places in the state,” Sheriff Ray continued.

“Some of the indictments were for sale and delivery in a drug free zone which is an area 1,000 feet of a school, park, library, and daycare,” he added.

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