After pleading guilty to stealing more than $10,000 from his employer, a serial thief who rose to national notoriety as a teenager when he pretended to be a doctor in order to scam a patient is being sent back to prison.

Malachi Love-Robinson, 25, of Palm Beach County, Florida, admitted guilt to grand theft and an organized plot to deceive and was given a sentence of more than two years and four months last week.

According to court records, Robinson was employed by a business that links shippers and trucking companies in 2020 as a salesperson. Love-Robinson would instruct clients to move funds to accounts under his control rather than the business directly.

When Love-Robinson, then 18 years old, was detained after launching The New Birth New Life Medical Center under the name “Dr Love,” he initially gained widespread notoriety.

During house calls, he took $30,000 from an elderly patient and another $20,000 from a physician. He examined and gave treatment recommendations to a police officer undercover who was acting as a patient before being apprehended.

Love-Robinson was detained in Virginia later that year while on bail after attempting to purchase a Jaguar with a fraudulent credit card.

In both cases, he entered a guilty plea, and in 2019 he was allowed to leave prison.