A Queens man who raised as a doctor was accused of attacking and exerting a drug without permission after a woman who went to cardiac arrest during a abused cosmetic surgery in an improvised clinic, according to an internal police report.
The man, Felipe Hoyos Foronda, 38, tried to leave the United States after the woman did not respond, according to the report. Officers arrived at Kennedy Airport last Friday, just hours after the operation, waiting to board the first part of a flight to Colombia, the report said.
The 31 -year -old woman was taken to a hospital by an emergency doctors, where she was intubated, according to a criminal complaint filed by Queens District’s proxy on Saturday. He had “no brain activity,” the complaint said, “and it is not likely to survive.” (It was not clear who called on 911 to report her condition.)
The woman, who has not been publicly recognized, had come to the clinic to remove her buttocks, according to the police report. Prosecutors said Mr Hoyos Foronda used a syringe to infiltrate it with lidocaine, an anesthetic, and that her condition appeared to be consistent with the toxicity of lidocaine.
New York has seen an increase in illegal clinics and “medical thermal baths” that offer reduced prices for people who want to change their appearance, in both large and small ways.
In January, a Manhattan beautician was accused of injecting patients with counterfeit Botox who caused bodily harm, including alteration. And in recent years, at least two practitioners of the “Butt Lift” procedures have been accused of homicide after their customers died.
Mr. Hoyos Foronda seems to have been a busy, though licensed, cosmetic surgeon who worked in New York and Miami and Long Island, according to electronic files and ads.
In the Queens, he carried out procedures in a brick house on a inhabited street in Astoria with tall trees and well -preserved gardens. On Thursday, the abandonment mandate was attached to the door. Neighbors said they had seen a flock of emergency vehicles to reach the block on Friday night, but that they knew little about the man looking for the police.
Police first learned about the establishment on Friday, when a friend of the injured woman went home to pick her up after the procedure, the report said. But when the friend arrived, he learned that the woman’s process had gone wrong.
The friend called the police, the report said. Shortly afterwards, the officers interviewed the owner, who gave them a natural description and photograph of Mr. Hoyos Foronda.
Police found the traffic sign information and watched his car at Expressway Van Wyck on the road to Kennedy Airport, the report said.
Officers have notified other law enforcement services on Mr Hoyos Foronda and Port Authority Police searched at the airport until he found him. He was waiting to board a flight to Florida, where he had planned to take a flight connecting Colombia, the report said.
Mr. Hoyos Foronda remained in custody on the island of Rikers on Thursday. His lawyer did not respond to a message looking for comments.
Like many medical spas operators and aesthetic or fly-on-night surgical centers, Mr. Hoyos Foronda was active in social media, where he was sometimes recognized as a doctor. Online, provided potential customers a window to his business.
In Tiktok, he reported prices for procedures, sales ads and reported special events, including a “Botox Party” $ 450 during Christmas.
He also posted videos of the processes themselves, some of which seemed to be performed on massage boards in a residential environment, as dramatic music played in the background.
In a videoA woman can see a glutatic process while she is on a table next to a blue sofa as messages on the Spanish flash on the screen: “They swallow your buttocks with our machine” and “safe and painless method”.
In another video Posted in December 2023, a man can see that he leans over a woman’s stomach as she is on a massage table. The video assures customers “personalized attention and high quality standards”.
It seems to have been filmed in an apartment and a popular Tiktok sound effect plays in a loop over the video.
Wesley parnell They contributed reports.
