A Florida man who was once arrested as a teenager for posing as a doctor was re-arrested in Palm Beach County on Thursday on charges of fraud and large-scale theft.
Malachi Love-Robinson, 23, has been arrested and charged with stealing money from customers while working as a contractor for the United States of Freight in Delray Beach, WPTV, reports the NBC-affiliated TV station in West Palm Beach. Police said Love-Robinson withdrew more than $ 10,000 in customers’ payments to his personal bank account in March.
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Authorities received text messages in which Love-Robinson appeared to be taking responsibility and told his boss at the freight company that he was “doing everything [he] able to fix it “and that he did not” want to go to jail. “
Love-Robinson was released on Thursday after posting $ 2,000 bail.
Love-Robinson, known in the media as’ Dr. Love ‘, is first accused of posing as a doctor in 2015 when he wore a lab coat and posing as an OB-GYN in the St. Louis area for a few weeks. Mary’s Medical Center. At the time, Love-Robinson was 17 years old.
In 2016, Love-Robinson was arrested and charged with setting up a false medical practice in West Palm Beach. Later that year, he was charged with defrauding an elderly woman of more than $ 35,000 while he claimed to have treated her for intestinal pain. In a separate incident, Love-Robinson served a year in prison in Virginia for trying to use a family member’s personal information to buy a car.
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Love-Robinson pleaded guilty in 2018 to charges of fraud, aggravated theft and practicing natural medicine without a license. He claims he never claims to be a medical doctor.
Love-Robinson was released from prison in September 2019 after serving nearly two years and a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence.