Unlicensed Bronx wellness doctor arrested for murder for anti-aging shot that killed woman

Colin Mixson and Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News on Oct 7, 2026

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The founder of a Bronx wellness clinic previously arrested in connection with the death of a 27-year-old woman during a botched unlicensed medical procedure was ordered held on $2 million bail after he was slapped with a much more serious charge — depraved indifference murder, authorities said Wednesday.

It wasn’t immediately clear if Luis Rojas Cabrera, 55 — who was released without bail after his initial arrest in July for reckless endangerment and operating an illegal medical practice during an anti-aging procedure for Elizabeth Baron — will make bail on the new charges. He is being held on Rikers Island after being arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Supreme Court Tuesday on the new charges.

His lawyer Donald Vogelman called the murder charge “outrageous.”

“Depraved indifference murder means that the defendant did not care whether the patient lived or died,” Vogelman told the Daily News. “That fact that Mr. Cabrera called 911 himself and gave (Baron) CPR proves that he did care.”

The new criminal charges come after Baron’s death was ruled a homicide, officials said.

Baron died as a result of a cardiac air embolism caused by the procedure on July 19 at Bereshit Lifestyle Center on Riverdale Ave. near W. 232nd St., the city Medical Examiner determined.

Baron went into medical distress soon after Cabrera, the clinic’s founder, injected her right hand with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, or NAD+, which is marketed as an “anti-aging therapy solution.”

Cabrera called an ambulance and Baron was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital but medics were unable to revive her.

Cabrera was licensed in his native Dominican Republic but not in the U.S.

At his initial arraignment, a prosecutor said Cabrera told police he had made “a very big mistake.’

The Bronx clinic’s website, which remained online more than a month after Baron received the fatal procedure, describes Cabrera as “an active surgeon and Naturopath in the Dominican Republic and an alternative and holistic medicine (practitioner) in the United States.”

The unlicensed wellness clinic founder was arrested twice in November at Newark Liberty International Airport arriving back from the Dominican Republic, first for possession of a metal baton, and four days later for almost 200 vials of prescription medications, 30 tablets, and 10 syringes of lidocaine, an anesthetic.

The cases were later downgraded and dismissed.

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