The founder of a wellness center in the Bronx is now facing murder charges after a woman died this summer following a serum injection. <\/p>\n
Dr. Luis Rojas, who advertises himself as a holistic doctor who offers alternative medicine, had already been charged with reckless endangerment and unauthorized practice of a profession in the July death of 27-year-old Elizabeth Baron. Charges were upgraded this week to include murder with “depraved indifference.”<\/p>\n
Law enforcement sources have said Baron was receiving an injection of some sort of serum as part of an anti-aging treatment when something went wrong. The woman lost consciousness and was taken to the emergency room, but she could not be saved. <\/p>\n
Rojas worked out of Bereshit Lifestyle Center along Riverdale Avenue. His website offers a host of services, but it neglects to mention that Rojas does not have a license to practice medicine in the U.S.. He had a license to practice medicine in the Dominican Republic but not in the U.S., according to police. His website indicates he is certified as a medical assistant in alternative medicine.<\/p>\n
His bail has been set at $2 million. Attorney information for Rojas was not known. <\/p>\n
At the time of her death, it wasn’t clear if Baron had any underlying medical conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The founder of a wellness center in the Bronx is now facing murder charges after a woman died…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,3294,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-367603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-crime-and-courts","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\/367603","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=367603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}