Overview

• Volusia County deputies arrested Joseph Thomas Kinney, 55, outside an AdventHealth site selected by investigators for the operation.
• He faces two counts of practicing health care without a license and is being held at the Volusia County Jail on a $20,000 bond.
• Detectives say he applied across Central Florida with the same fraudulent ID and worked less than a week at facilities in Orange and Seminole counties.
• The case began when a Ridgecrest hiring manager in DeLand reported a suspicious application after previously questioning his documents during an October 2024 interview at Indigo Manor in Daytona Beach.
• Authorities say his nursing licenses in Alabama, California and Florida were revoked in 2022 after disciplinary actions, and the HHS Office of Inspector General assisted in the arrest.