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Beauty Queen Who Faked Cancer To Raise Money Fraudulently Arrested By Police

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Brandi Lee Weaver-Gates

Winning a beauty pageant once meant she probably had some potential in her, but this girl decided to waste it away with the cruellest of ruses imaginable.

She faked cancer for years, deceiving everyone including her family into thinking she had leukemia.

She used her alleged condition to raise thousands of dollars, and apparently was so dedicated to the scheme that she even shaved her head to give off the appearance of being involved in chemo.

Quite the dedicated felon, she is currently being held by police after an anonymous tip led to her arrest.

According to CNN:

Brandi Lee Weaver-Gates, Miss Pennsylvania U.S. International, led everyone to believe she had been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in March 2013.

In the years since, she took part in fundraisers to pay for her treatment. Police told CNN affiliate WJAC the most recent event was held in April and raised $14,000.

A police investigation found no evidence that Weaver-Gates had ever been under a doctor’s care for cancer.

State Police Trooper Thomas Stock called her efforts to make people believe she had cancer “an elaborate scheme,” telling WJAC that Weaver-Gates would have relatives drive her to Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.

They would wait in the lobby for hours for her return, while she went to another part of the hospital.

An anonymous letter to police tipped them off to the scheme.

“When confronted with what the investigation revealed, the accused advised that she did not want to incriminate herself and invoked her right to an attorney,” police said in a release.

Weaver-Gates is being held in the Centre County Correctional Facility after she was charged with felony counts of theft by deception and receiving stolen property.

She is due in court next week.”



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