homicide<\/a>, manslaughter, tampering with physical evidence, practicing medicine without a license, and nine counts of delivery of a dangerous drug, according to a Freestone County Jail spokesperson. <\/p>\n![\"Amber](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-07-at-11-30-27-AM.png\")
Amber Johnson, the owner of the Luxe Medspa in Wortham, Texas, has been charged with felony murder, manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and other charges relating to the 2023 death of Jenifer Cleveland at her facility (Freestone County Sheriff’s Office)<\/p>\n
Johnson was released on April 28 on a $69,000 bond. <\/p>\n
Following Cleveland’s final autopsy, it was determined that she died from \u201csudden cardiac death of uncertain etiology,\u201d with the report noting that the IV therapy \u201ccannot be definitely ruled-in or ruled-out as contributory.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, the Texas Medical Board investigated the death and determined in 2024 that Cleveland died “due to the improper administration” of an IV therapy. <\/p>\n
According to PEOPLE, the IV contained TPN electrolytes, which require a slow infusion rate due to the high concentration of potassium found in the mixture.<\/p>\n
If too much potassium is delivered directly to the bloodstream in a short amount of time, it can cause fatal cardiac arrhythmias. <\/p>\n
Johnson did not have a medical license and operated the medspa despite Texas laws prohibiting anyone without medical licensure from being the majority owner of medical practices. <\/p>\n
Dr Michael Gallagher worked with Johnson as the spa’s medical director. He has also been charged in Cleveland’s death and faces a single count of murder, manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, and multiple counts relating to the provision of dangerous drugs. <\/p>\n
He was arrested and was released on a $96,500 bond on April 29. <\/p>\n
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Dr Michael Gallagher, the medical director at the Luxe Medspa in Wortham, Texas has been charged with murder, manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide in the 2023 death of Jenifer Cleveland from an improperly administered IV therapy (Freestone County Sheriff’s Office)<\/p>\n
Gallagher’s medical license was suspended in 2023 amid the investigation into Cleveland’s death. <\/p>\n
Cleveland’s husband, Brian Cleveland, is suing Luxe Medspa for wrongful death, and helped to get a law passed in his wife’s name that introduces regulations on the administration of IV therapies. <\/p>\n
“Naming the legislation after Jenifer is maybe her way of giving back… Continue to help even though she’s not physically still here with us, that she’s always gonna be right here in the heart,” he told KCEN<\/a> in April 2025. <\/p>\nUnder the new law, every IV session has to be ordered by a qualified prescriber \u2014 which includes physicians, physician assistants, or nurse practitioners \u2014 and only medical professionals can administer the IVs. <\/p>\n
The law \u2014 called “Jenifer’s Law” \u2014 was signed by Governor Gregg Abbott in June. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-283131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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