CLAREMONT — Three Sullivan County residents have been indicted in connection with an alleged Medicaid fraud scheme, the latest in a series of actions the New Hampshire State Attorney General’s Office has brought this year alleging state residents bilked the state-managed public assistance program.

Sara Lapointe and Joseph Bye, both of Claremont, were indicted by a Merrimack County Grand Jury in October over an alleged scheme that centered around the couple separately submitting false mileage reimbursement claims for travel between where they purported to be living and a drug treatment program in Concord.

The false claims yielded the couple more than a total of $40,000 in ill-gotten gains, according to court documents.

Lapointe, 28, and Bye, 31, have each been charged with felony theft and Medicaid fraud, according to a news release issued this week by New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella.

Also indicted is Kimberly Patterson, 51, of Cornish, who has been charged with perjury and Medicaid fraud.

Attorneys for Lapointe and Bye did not respond to emails for comment on Thursday.

Patterson, reached by phone on Thursday, declined to comment.

The alleged theft of Medicaid funds was uncovered after investigators in the state’s Medicaid fraud unit were contacted by a counselor with a New Hampshire health insurance plan reporting that Lapointe and Bye appeared to be using addresses at which neither resided to submit false claims to a program that pays for mileage...

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