New Mexico's attorney general has charged April Guadalupe Hernandez with multiple crimes, including nursing without a license, abuse of a resident, and fraud, for allegedly stealing the identities of nurses from Texas, California, and Kansas.

"It was a well-thought-out theft of identity that was difficult to catch," Joseph Martinez, the Deputy Director of the Medicaid Fraud and Elder Abuse Bureau at the New Mexico Department of Justice, told KOAT on Thursday.

Hernandez, a 26-year-old certified nurse assistant, was charged Thursday with 19 counts of misconduct.

She was employed by three different hospice centers over the course of a year, using the names Guadalupe Hernandez and April Vasquez-Hernandez, according to court documents.

In August 2024, she worked at Luna Del Valle Hospice, c

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