PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida lady was arrested after police stated she botched a Botox session in a yard shed, leaving the affected person with facial paralysis.
In accordance with the Port St. Lucie Police Division, the investigation started in Might after a sufferer reported that she skilled facial paralysis from being injected at a makeshift yard Med Spa shed operated by 50-year-old Rosa Mena.
The sufferer advised police that she believed Mena was an “unlicensed medical skilled” operating an unlawful Med Spa.
After the sufferer confronted Mena about her accidents, she was refunded $325. Nonetheless, the sufferer stated Mena had her return to inject her once more with “nutritional vitamins to reverse the results.”
The sufferer stated she nonetheless skilled paralysis and requested to see Mena’s medical license and supporting certificates, however stated Mena by no means produced them. As a substitute, investigators stated Mena confirmed the sufferer a “censored/altered certificates of Phlebotomy.”
The sufferer advised detectives that she contacted the company that issued Mena’s certificates and discovered that it had expired in February 2024.
Mena advised the sufferer that she was a physician from the Dominican Republic to dismiss the sufferer’s issues, in accordance with police.
Detectives obtained a search warrant for Mena’s property and stated they discovered medical beds, vials, fats sculpting machines, injectable units for fillers, Botox and extra within the shed.
Mena was arrested and charged with aggravated battery inflicting bodily hurt, practising drugs with out an energetic license, fraud and utilizing a two-way communication machine to facilitate a felony.
“We wish to remind the general public to analysis the ability and particular person previous to performing procedures,” the police division posted on Facebook. “Moreover, in an effort to carry out injectable procedures like Botox it must be carried out by a licensed skilled.”
