A Florida man once arrested as a teenager for impersonating a doctor was taken into custody again in Palm Beach County on Thursday on charges of fraud and theft, according to police.
Malachi Love-Robinson, 23, was arrested on charges of stealing money from customers while working as a contractor for the United States of Freight in Delray Beach, WPTV, NBC’s affiliated TV station in West Palm Beach reported. Police said Love-Robinson channeled more than $ 10,000 in customer payments to his personal bank account in March.
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Authorities got text messages in which Love-Robinson seemed to take responsibility, telling his boss at the freight company that he was “doing everything [he] can do the right thing “and that he didn’t” wanted to go to jail.
Love-Robinson was released on Thursday after paying $ 2,000 bail.
Known in the media as “Dr. Love”, Love-Robinson was first accused of posing as a doctor in 2015, when he donned a lab coat and pretended to be an obstetrician-gynecologist at St. Mary’s Medical Center for several weeks. At the time, Love-Robinson was 17 years old.
In 2016, Love-Robinson was arrested and charged with establishing a fake doctor’s office in West Palm Beach. Later that year, he was charged with defrauding an elderly woman for more than $ 35,000 while claiming to treat her for intestinal pain. In a separate incident, Love-Robinson served a year in prison in Virginia for trying to use a relative’s personal information to buy a car.
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Love-Robinson pleaded guilty in 2018 to charges of fraud, major theft and unlicensed naturopathy. He said he never claimed to be a doctor.
Love-Robinson was released from prison in September 2019 after serving almost two years of a 3 ½ year sentence.