Del Rio Man Sentenced to 14 Years for $6.85M Medicare Fraud Scheme

Orlando Omar Garcia-Moya, a 54-year-old legal permanent resident from Piedras Negras, Mexico, was sentenced to 168 months in federal prison after being convicted of leading a $6.85 million Medicare and Medicaid fraud scheme tied to a local ambulance company, federal authorities announced March 6 in Del Rio.

The sentence, handed down in the Western District of Texas federal courthouse in Del Rio, amounts to 14 years behind bars. Garcia-Moya was convicted of leading a scheme that fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid, according to court records and the Story Title attributed to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The ambulance company at the center of the scheme has not been publicly named in available court materials.

The Garcia-Moya sentencing came the same week Del Rio federal court also resolved a separate human smuggling prosecution. Rodolfo Daniel De Hoyos, 22, of Eagle Pass, received 170 months in prison for conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens causing serious bodily injury and placing lives in jeopardy. Investigators say De Hoyos was first arrested in November 2021 in Kinney County after a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper stopped his vehicle and found three migrants from Guatemala inside. Authorities later tied him to a larger smuggling organization that transported undocumented migrants across the state.

De Hoyos was among five defendants in the smuggling case. Together, the five received a combined 89 years in federal prison in a prosecution involving threats and abuse against a migrant family, federal prosecutors said. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas, the sentences stem from a smuggling conspiracy that transported migrants across Texas and placed victims in dangerous situations.

The two cases reflect the range of federal enforcement activity flowing through Del Rio's federal courthouse, which serves as the hub for the Western District's border-area prosecutions. Medicare and Medicaid fraud cases of this scale typically involve investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General alongside federal prosecutors; the specific investigative agencies involved in the Garcia-Moya case have not been confirmed in available records.