A Brownsville businesswoman and her daughter-in-law are behind bars after being accused of filing more than $646,000 dollars in fake claims to Medicaid.

FBI agents arrested 50-year-old Felicitas Alanis and 26-year-old Erica Ortega Alanis on Thursday.

A federal grand jury in McAllen the two women in a six-count Medicaid fraud case on Tuesday.

Records for the nine-page indictment were unsealed on Friday morning.

The indictment shows Felicitas Alanis owned Vel-Ala, Inc. and Nisi Medical Equipment and Supplies, which supplied durable medical equipment in Brownsville, Harlingen and other areas of South Texas.

Both she and her daughter-in-law are accused of filing $646,000 dollars in false claims to Medicaid between January 2005 and October 2006.

The two allegedly received a total $554,000 dollars in payments for good that were never delivered.

Both Felicitas and Erica Alanis appeared before U.S. Magistrate Court Judge Felix Recio in Brownsville on Friday morning.

Judge Recio denied bond for both of them until a Monday morning.

The two women are also scheduled to appear for arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Court Judge Dorina Ramon in McAllen on Thursday.