Luis Rojas Cabrera<\/a>, who is licensed in his native Dominican Republic but not in the United States, was charged with reckless endangerment and unauthorized practice of a profession, police said.<\/p>\n“He’s a good man, a good father and a good doctor,” Cabrera’s son, Luis Rojas Cabrera Jr., 26, told the Daily News at Bronx Criminal Court while waiting for his father’s arraignment. “That’s why I’m so shocked.”<\/p>\n
The city Medical Examiner will conduct an initial autopsy on Baron Tuesday. Once her cause of death is determined, authorities could upgrade charges against the doctor.<\/p>\n
Rojas Cabrera’s sister in Minnesota was shaken to learn of his arrest.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think so,” Heidi Rojas Cabrera said when asked if her brother was licensed to practice in the United States. “To the best of my knowledge, no \u2026 He was a surgeon in the Dominican Republic \u2026 He was trying to get his physician assistant license (in the U.S.).”<\/p>\n
“He has always been passionate about what he does,” she added. “I’m just still in shock of what happened.”<\/p>\n
Luis Rojas Cabrera, pictured smiling broadly on the Bereshit Lifestyle Center website, says he is a “M.D., Surgeon, Naturopath.”<\/p>\n
“We have carefully chosen all of the products that we carry to make sure that you have the latest innovations and best products to help maintain a healthy lifestyle,” the center’s website boasts.<\/p>\n
He says he is board certified in holistic health and alternative medicine and that he is from a family of medical professionals in the Dominican Republic including his mother, whom beginning when he was 11 he assisted “in various nursing and medical procedures, thus causing an immense desire to continue studying in the area of nursing and medicine.”<\/p>\n
“It gives me great pleasure,” he says on the website “to help individuals gain improvement in their health condition and lifestyle through natural methods and simple therapies.”<\/p>\n
Luis Rojas Cabrera’s arraignment was pending in Bronx Criminal Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old woman died after getting an anti-aging injection at a holistic wellness center in the Bronx \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,6060,13779,114264,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-301533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-bronx-criminal-court","tag-dominican-republic","tag-holistic-wellness-center","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}