AUDIO โ TRAVESTY โ
Sept. 15, 2023 – For months, fraudulent sober living homes have been targeting tribal reservations across the western U.S., including the Navajo Nation and White Mountain Apache Tribe, coercing vulnerable people into coming to facilities in Phoenix.
The group homes then billed Arizonaโs Medicaid program for treatments that were often never provided, while leaving those in their care in unsafe environments.
After he disappeared, Jones says she only sporadically heard from Andrew, who is originally from Blanding, Utah.
โI called (the) Shiprock police station,โ she says. โAnd they said, โOkay, we have found the address of where he is. And weโll get back with you.โ So I kept on calling the police station for about a week or so. And I didnโt hear from them after that. So I just started searching on my own, online, of where he was. And the (last) place that I called, they told me that he wasnโt there anymore. And it was just from home to home.โ
In the next three months, Jones says Andrew didnโt reach out. She and her brotherโs parents became increasingly worried.
โI came across a web page with Reva Stewart, her web page was to help these homeless people on the streets,โ she says. โI had posted on there, โIโm looking for my brother if you find him,โ and she actually reached out to me and said, โShow me what he looks like.โโย
