A woman was arrested for allegedly giving facial injections without a license in Miami following an undercover operation at her office, authorities said.
Mayling Maya-Giraldo, 31, was arrested Thursday on charges of practicing the health care profession without a license, unlawfully possessing a prescription drug, and misrepresenting a medicine license.
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According to an arrest report, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office learned from Homeland Security Investigations that Maya-Giraldo was administering unlicensed Botox injections, and the Florida Department of Health confirmed that Maya-Giraldo wasn’t licensed to practice any type of health profession, including Botox injections.
Maya-Giraldo was advertising her business on an Instagram page, which featured her performing various cosmetic procedures including Botox injections, lip fillers and endolifting, the report said.
The page also said she was a doctor, and on Feb. 14 it promoted a Valentine’s Day special “Promo Especial Botox Full Face Precio Unico” for $450, the report said.
Authorities scheduled a Botox injection appointment for Thursday with Maya-Giraldo through Instagram for $450, and undercover investigators went to her office on Southwest 7th Street and paid for the procedure, the report said.
When Maya-Giraldo wiped makeup off the investigator’s forehead, put lidocaine on the forehead and filled a vial with the product she was going to inject, she was taken into custody, the report said.
Maya-Giraldo told investigators she didn’t have a license to practice medicine in Florida or the U.S. but claimed she had certificates to inject Botox, the report said.
The vial she filled was inspected and was found to contain Toxta, which requires a prescription but is a foreign and unapproved product from South Korea that can’t be dispensed in the U.S., the report said.
“The substance isn’t even Botox, it’s an unapproved product from South Korea,” a prosecutor said at Maya-Giraldo’s bond court appearance.
A judge granted Maya-Giraldo a $5,000 bond but court records showed she is a Colombian citizen and has an immigration hold.