NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� A New York City man has been charged with performing medical procedures without a license after a patient was left near death during a botched butt-implant removal procedure in his home, prosecutors and law enforcement officials said Thursday.
Felipe Hoyos-Foronda injected the 31-year-old woman with the local anesthetic lidocaine, causing her to go into cardiac arrest on March 28, according to a criminal complaint.
The woman was taken from Hoyos-Foronda's Queens home to a hospital, where a doctor said she is not expected to survive, the filing said.
The victim, who has not been named, 鈥渉as no brain activity鈥� and shows evidence of lidocaine toxicity, the doctor said.
Hoyos-Foronda, 38, was apprehended at JFK International Airport attempting to board a flight, authorities said.
Prosecutors said he was arraigned Sunday on charges of assault and unauthorized practice of a profession and was held without bail.
His lawyer didn't respond to email and phone messages seeking comment Thursday.
Hoyos-Foronda promoted a range of cosmetic procedures on , where he also sometimes identified himself as a doctor.
One recent post touts for Botox, lip fillers and body sculpting. shows him using a machine on a woman that he claims, in text written in Spanish, as a 鈥渟afe and painless method" to shape one's glutes, or butt muscles. suggest he also offered his services in Miami.
Earlier this year, a Manhattan aesthetician was charged with injecting customers with at his medical spa after some of them complained that it made them sick.
In 2018, a Manhattan man posing as a doctor was sentenced to up to 12 years in jail after pleading guilty in the death of a woman during a .
In 2015, a former madam who performed illegal 鈥渂ody sculpting鈥� in the Philadelphia area was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison after the death of a dancer whose heart stopped after nearly was injected into her buttocks.
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