05/08/2026
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Jenifer Cleveland walked into Luxe Medspa in Wortham, Texas on July 10, 2023, for what she believed was a routine wellness treatment.
Twenty-seven minutes later, she lost consciousness.
She never went home.
At 11:04 a.m., Jenifer began receiving an IV infusion containing vitamins and electrolytes — the kind of treatment thousands of Americans get at med spas every single week. By 11:31 a.m., she was in cardiac arrest.
Investigators now say what killed her was a fatal overdose of potassium chloride — pumped into her body at a rate that was never safe, administered by someone who was never legally qualified to do it.
And here is where this story turns from tragedy into something far more disturbing.
Amber Johnson, the owner of Luxe Medspa, did not hold a medical license. According to investigators, she was not legally permitted to administer the treatments she was offering to paying customers. Texas law restricts ownership of medical practices to licensed physicians — a law authorities allege Johnson violated every single day she kept those doors open.
To get around it, court records allege she used the medical license of anesthesiologist Dr. Michael Gallagher — who prosecutors say failed to supervise her and allowed his credentials to be used to obtain the very drugs that killed Jenifer Cleveland.
Johnson turned herself in on April 28th. Gallagher was arrested the following day.
Between them, they now face charges of felony murder, manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, practicing medicine without a license, tampering with evidence, and multiple counts of delivering dangerous drugs.
Jenifer Cleveland was 47 years old. She went to a med spa for a wellness treatment and was dead before lunchtime — because the person holding the IV line was not qualified to hold it, and the doctor whose name was on the license was nowhere in the room.
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