Dr. Jesus Bernal, a chiropractor, was sentenced to 3 years in prison for allowing an unlicensed dentist to practice out of his chiropractic clinic in Southern Arizona.
Maria Hernandez, who is not a licensed dentist, would travel up from Mexico to provide unlicensed dental treatments to Tucson residents, working in a makeshift dental office in the Bernal Chiropractic Clinic. When a search warrant was executed on the makeshift dental office, FBI agents found unsanitary conditions and no means of sterilization.
In January 2018, a jury convicted Bernal of Fraudulent Schemes and Artifices, Money Laundering, Practicing Dentistry without a License, Conspiracy, and Illegal Control of an Enterprise.
Hernandez is currently facing criminal charges and is currently on the run and believed to be hiding in Mexico.