A teenager who was arrested for
posing as a doctor has been
rearrested…for posing as a doctor
and stealing.
Malachi Love-Robinson was first
accused of pretending to be a doctor
in January 2015. Then 17, he
pretended to be a consultant in at
least one gynecological examination
at St. Mary’s Medical Center,
according to a West Palm Beach
police report.
Records show that last October he
opened a clinic in Boynton Beach but
closed it after he was issued a cease-
and-desist order that same month
from the Florida of Department of
Health because he didn’t have a
medical license.
In an Oct. 14 meeting with state
investigators, Love-Robinson said a
college transcript and diploma from
the Southwest College of Natural
Medicine and a diploma from
Arizona State University that he had
presented at the clinic were
fraudulent, according to records.
Love-Robinson said he had a degree
from an online Christian school, and
advised that medical doctors on staff
would be consulted if a client needed
a medication change, according to a
report of the interview.
Yet the state investigators
determined that Love-Robinson’s
role at the clinic went too far, saying
that for nearly a month he was
“leading the public to believe [he]
was a licensed medical doctor,
without holding an active license,”
the report said.
Later, investigators got a tip that
Love-Robinson was again practicing
medicine without a license from an
office called The New Birth New Life
Medical Center, at 4700 N. Congress
Ave. in West Palm Beach, according
to an arrest report.
Love-Robinson was presenting
himself as a licensed physician and
had employees, but no one there was
licensed to diagnose and treat
patients, the report said. He was
arrested in February after allegedly
conducting a physical examination
of a female undercover officer, who
came to his office complaining of
feeling sick.
Love-Robinson allegedly told the
officer that he was a “doctor of
homeopathic medicine” and a health
care practitioner specializing in all-
natural treatments. He also said he
had an “MD” on staff to prescribe
antibiotics for other physical
ailments, the arrest report said.
Among the second set of charges,
Love-Robinson was accused of
stealing personal checks from Anita
Morrison, an 86-year-old West Palm
Beach woman he visited at her home
several times concerning severe
intestinal pain.
Officials say Love-Robinson tapped
Morrison’s checking account to make
$34,504 in payments for his Nissan
car loans and credit cards. He’s also
accused of forging three checks
totaling $2,794.
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