Man sentenced to life in Lantana-area shooting
LANTANA — A man who had been living in the Seminole
Manor housing development west of Lantana has been sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted of by a felon. Jenkins, who had attempted first-degree muran address of Dothan, Ala., der with a firearm in an Octo- when he was arrested in ber 2017 shooting, court November, was convicted records show. in 2006 on a first-degree
Terrance Jenkins, 28, was robbery charge in Alabama, convicted and sentenced a Palm Beach County Sher- May 11, according to court iff ’s Office report says. records. He remained Prosecutors said in court Tuesday at the Palm Beach in November that Jenkins County Jail, awaiting transhad no criminal history in fer to state prison. Florida.
Dockets show prosecutors According to the sher- dropped a separate charge iff ’s report, deputies found of possession of a firearm De’Aundre Ward, 21, in the road in front of his home at about 1 p.m. Oct. 25, a single gunshot wound in his back. He said Jenkins had shot him, then driven off.
The report said deputies found seven spent 9mm shell casings in a parking lot and then found a woman who said she was Jenkins’ girl- friend and that Jenkins had argued with Ward.
Ward later told an investi- gator that Jenkins had sent him a text message accusing him of being antisocial and the two had arranged to meet outside to work things out.
He said the talk escalated into an argument and Jenkins pulled out a handgun and shot him. DELRAY BEACH — A Delray Beach spa owner is facing a charge of practicing medicine without a license after city police said she agreed to give an undercover officer a testosterone injection with- out being certified to do so.
Jennifer Aspen owns Mermaid’s Skin and Wellness, which offers services such as IV drips and Botox and hormone injections by “cer- tified & licensed professionals,” according to its website. Yet a Florida Department of Health investigator found that Aspen — the spa’s only full-time employee — is a certified nursing assistant and not allowed to administer any of those treatments, said Brad Dalton, DOH spokes- man.
Delray Beach police went to Mermaid’s, at Federal Highway and Northea st Fourth Street, and the offi- cer arranged to receive a testosterone shot. They said in their report that Aspen said she would perform the injection and was about to have the officer’s blood drawn when they arrested her.
Aspen, 40, of Oakland Park, denied that she was going to inject the officer “even when told the offer was recorded,” according to the report. During an inter- view with police, she also denied injecting any patients with Botox.
Aspen was served with a cease-and-desist order, stopping her from performing services that the state deems to be medical practices, Dalton said. She can continue to work as a certified nursing assistant.
When reached for comstate-licensed doctor and ment last week, Aspen said the spa’s medical supervisor, it was all a misunderstandhad only been to the busiing and declined to elabo- ness three times. The colrate. She was booked into lege student said his license the Palm Beach County Jail was displayed on the wall. on May 19 and was released When reached Wednesthat day on $4,500 bond. day by The Palm Beach Post, This is the first time she has Garcia said he had instructed been accused of the offense Aspen to advertise for the in either Palm Beach or Brobusiness to gather a client ward counties, court records base, and that he would then indicate. administer medicine when
The state probe began in he came there from Ocala, December when an investi- where his practice is headgator reported seeing Aspen quartered. advertise testosterone-reGarcia said he didn’t know placement therapy services Aspen was administering on Craigslist. The investigamedicine. tor went undercover and “If she did it, she was doing spoke with Aspen, who said it without my consent,” he she had just recently opened said. the spa and that she had a Aspen, a CNA in Florida medical director who wasn’t since December 2000, told set up yet. police said she was allowed to
The state notified Delray administer IVs because they Beach police, which sent are a “drip, not a push.”Daltheir own officer to the spa ton said CNAs are not perin January. A college student mitted to administer IVs. working there said Aspen State records indicate that held monthly Botox parties, a certified nursing assistant police said. can help with personal-care
In February, the Delray tasks, such as dressing and Beach agent went in again bathing, under supervision and asked Aspen for a testos- of either a registered nurse terone injection. Police said or a licensed practical nurse. Aspen signed alab order with They cannot administer medthe name “Dr. Omar Garcia icine regardless of superviMD,” although Garcia was sion, meaning they cannot not on-site that day. Other inject people with Botox, fillofficers then entered the ers or hormones, Dalton said. spa to stop the procedure.
During interviews, Aspen told police that Garcia, a