Bizzarre Florida

The charge? 'Quackery'
The charges actually were “unlicensed practice of a health care profession” and “unlicensed practice of medicine,” but we like Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd’s description of the charges: “quackery.”

He said Enrique Vela, 68, and wife Ute Marquez, 56, diagnosed two undercover detectives with various ailments, then provided natural remedies they claimed would cure them,

TheLedger.com reports.
The sheriff’s office began investigating the Alternative Therapy Center in Winter Haven after the Health Department received an anonymous complaint alleging Vela and Marquez were diagnosing patients with cat parasites and arsenic poisoning.

Vela referred to himself as a doctor of homeopathic medicine, and told one of the detectives he could cure early stages of cancer. He told another detective plagued with appendicitis that she had hookworm larvae, among other ailments, the reports said.