Florida woman's botched 'Botox' excuse to apply for hurricane relief

A Florida pistillate was arrested aft attempting to record for hurricane alleviation utilizing her mother's sanction and claiming she looked younger due to the fact that of Botox, according to police.

Veronica Torres, 44, was arrested Friday on a complaint of filing a mendacious nationalist assistance claim, a third-degree felony, the Bradenton Police Department said. 

She schemed to usage her mother's name, driver's licence and societal information accusation to use for the City of Bradenton's Hurricane Disaster Assistance Program.

Hurricane Helen and Hurricane Milton swept through Manatee County - wherever Bradenton is located - implicit the span of 13 days and caused an estimated $65.6 cardinal successful damages, reported the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

According to police, Torres claimed she was forced to determination retired of her location due to the fact that of the storms.

Her petition for astir $7,967 was approved, but erstwhile she went to prime up her cheque connected Thursday a metropolis worker was startled by the quality successful her quality connected the application. 

The worker questioned wherefore Torres looked younger than the pistillate successful the recognition provided connected the assistance application.

'Her mentation of “botox treatments” failed to person the employee,' constabulary said.

Torres was asked to travel prime up the cheque the pursuing time and erstwhile she came for the 2nd clip constabulary questioned her.

She was arrested and past released aft posting $2,500 bond, according to records obtained by NBC News.

Hurricanes Debby, Helene and Milton astir precocious struck the Sunshine State, sidesplitting hundreds of radical and destroying thousands of homes and businesses done a record-breaking August to October period.

Insurance experts told DailyMail.com that premiums person sky-rocketed successful caller weeks, prompting galore lifelong residents to contemplate moving retired of authorities for the archetypal time.

A Tampa mates were near devastated to larn their security company denied their flood assertion because their surviving country is classified arsenic a basement.

Food waters rushed done Jaime Giangrande-Holcom's household location and ruined everything successful the surviving country erstwhile Hurricane Helene deed the Sunshine State successful September.

The extended harm prompted her and her hubby to record a assertion done the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

However, an security adjuster said the three-and-a-half inch 'step down' from the entranceway to the surviving country means the country is technically classified arsenic "basement," and truthful not included successful their coverage.

'It's ridiculous. To adjacent travel retired and accidental the connection "basement" successful the authorities of Florida is comical,' Jaime told WFLA.

Jaime and her hubby had paid $3,800 for flood security this twelvemonth done the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which is administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

The NFIP defines a basement arsenic immoderate country of a gathering with a level that is beneath crushed level connected each sides, according to its website.

It see rooms that are not afloat beneath crushed level - specified arsenic sunken surviving rooms - arsenic basements, due to the fact that the lowest level is beneath crushed connected each sides.

However, Jaime hopes the measurements of her location volition beryllium the surviving country is not beneath crushed level and truthful not a basement.