By Jeff Morganteen
The Connecticut Post
STAMFORD, Conn. — A former city paramedic, arrested last winter in a bizarre case of deception that ended with her being charged with of performing illegal medical procedures and other acts of deception on a friend, was arrested this week for allegedly violating conditions of her release.
Jennifer Mardi, 36, of 255 Strawberry Hill Ave., Stamford, was seen three times within 100 yards of the victim’'s home between January and May, after a judge ordered her to stay away from the woman, Police Lt. James Matheny said.
Mardi turned herself in to police Monday, three weeks after the victim, a 39-year-old Stamford woman, said her boyfriend reported seeing Mardi parked near her home.
Messages left on Mardi’'s cell phone were not returned Wednesday. Her lawyer declined to comment.
Mardi was arrested in December on 38 counts each of third-degree assault and reckless endangerment. She also was charged with practicing medicine without a license. The charges stem from an elaborate deception allegedly set up by Mardi, according to police and court papers.
In court hearings after Mardi’'s arrest, a judge told her to not go within 100 yards of the victim, police said.
The victim said in an e-mail that her boyfriend saw Mardi in a car near her house but she quickly turned around and sped away. Officers measured the distance between where her boyfriend saw Mardi and the house, and it was less than 100 yards, the victim said.
Mardi had allegedly fabricated a months-long medical drama and sent e-mails and text messages to the woman while posing as doctors, nurses, therapists. It was all an effort to keep the Stamford woman in her life, police have said.
At the focal point of the deception was a mutual friend whom Mardi allegedly said was rendered speechless by an illness and was bedridden in a hospital. The friend later told police he was not sick. Mardi had allegedly taken the victim’'s phone and swapped her phone number with the mutual friend, an arrest warrant affidavit states.
During the deception, Mardi allegedly took blood from the woman and injected potassium and vitamin B-12 a total of 38 times.
Mardi was released on $50,000 bond after her most recent charges.
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