VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. —

A man running a travel company with a Massachusetts address is accused of defrauding a group of Florida students and chaperones out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Robert Goodwin, 56, is accused of using his travel agency, Stone & Compass Inc., to sell and then cancel without a refund an international trip to 104 students and chaperones from a high school in Volusia County, Florida, the county sheriff said.

Stone & Compass Inc. is listed as a Delaware-based corporation with a mailing address in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Goodwin is the "sole owner, officer, and operator of Stone & Compass, Inc.," according to a a complaint filed by Florida's attorney general.

The Florida students and chaperones were defrauded out of about $400,000, the Volusia Sheriff's Offi

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