Police: Fake Doctor Gave Patients 'Diet' IVs
Man Charged With Practicing Medicine Without License
POSTED: Thursday, December 15, 2005
UPDATED: 6:29 pm EST December 15, 2005
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MIAMI -- Police say a west Miami-Dade County man was running an unlicensed diet clinic.Armando Valdes was arrested Wednesday night following a joint investigation by Miami-Dade police, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Department of Health.Investigators say Valdes operated an illegal diet clinic out of a Doral warehouse.They said that Valdes administered a "diet" solution intravenously.IV paraphernalia and other medical equipment including echocardiogram machines were confiscated from the warehouse during the search.Valdes is charged with the unlicensed practice of medicine.
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