A man who operated the petting zoo at the Warren County A&L Fair for several years has been ordered to serve more than two months in jail for impersonating a licensed professional and identity theft.
Patrick Thomas Robinson, 39, was ordered to serve 74 days of a three-year sentence Wednesday by Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley.
Robinson may be best known in this community for his years of operating a mobile petting zoo which featured Bo the Camel and other loveable critters.
Robinson was indicted on March 6, 2020 on 15 counts of impersonating a licensed professional and one count of identity theft. The charges stem from a business he opened in October of 2018 in downtown Morrison at 120 E. Maple Street called Horizon Medical.
Based on information Robinson provided to the Standard when he opened, Horizon provided services like hormone replacement therapy, erectile dysfunction treatment, and PRP therapy, which stands for platelet-rich plasma.
It’s a therapy which uses the patient’s own blood to treat muscle and joint pain. It can also be used cosmetically to enhance the size of some parts of the body like lips or breasts.
Robinson also said his office would work to provide free healthcare, affordable prescriptions, and dental services to those in need, in particular the Amish. He said he would have a physician’s assistant on hand.
In the 15 counts of impersonating a licensed professional, the indictments claimed Robinson, “did knowingly use the personal identifying information of another with the intent to commit an unlawful act, to wit: practicing medicine without a license by impersonating a licensed professional.”
For the count of identity theft, the indictment said, “Patrick Thomas Robinson was not licensed to do so, but did practice or pretend to be licensed to practice a profession for which a license certifying the qualifications of the license to practice the profession is required.”
According to the indictments, the illegal behavior took place between Oct. 29, 2018 and June 6, 2019. Robinson entered a plea agreement last month and pled guilty to only one count of impersonating a licensed professional and one count of identity theft, both felonies.
He was given 60 days to report to jail.
