Tampa woman accused of filing false application for grant

State investigators arrested a Tampa woman on charges she tried to get a $3,800 grant to teach water conservation by filing a false application.

It was the second arrest in less than six months of someone falsely claiming to run a private school in an attempt to get money from the Southwest Florida Water Management District.

In the latest arrest, agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested Kalanda Bostick 35, on Tuesday on a charge of grand theft, the agency said.

In October, agents arrested Derlyn Glover of Tampa on three felony charges.

Bostick is charged with trying to get a water management district grant to teach students about water conservation, the FDLE said. She did not receive any money.

The district, commonly called Swiftmud, issues small grants to public or private teachers who develop classroom exercises that focus on water issues such as conservation, water quality or flood protection.

Bostick applied in September claiming she ran PGS Cores Academy, Inc., with 180 students and asking for $3,820, the agency said.

The address for the school on the grant application - 3601 N. 15th St. in Tampa - is for PGS Cores, an auto repair business, the FDLE said. Bostick does not run a school or have any students.

The water management district notified FDLE about the application.

Bostick, 3713 19th St. N., was released from jail on $2,000 bail, jail records show.

Agents arrested Glover, 46, in Oct. 20 on charges she got about $8,000 in Swiftmud grant money between August 2006 and September 2010, the FDLE said.

Glover claimed she ran Sago Palm Educational Academy at 3411 N. 29th St. in Tampa with about 80 students but investigators learned the address was for her former school and she no longer owned the property, ran a school or had any students, the agency said.

She also used her dead mother's address on a grant application, the FDLE said.

Glover was charged with grand theft, organized fraud and fraudulent use of personal information, jail records show.