Fake Medico Charged With Manslaughter Of 28-year-old With Buttock Enhancement Drugs

One Venezuelan, Jose Robusto, 43, was charged with manslaughter and the practice of unlicensed medicine for administering buttock-enhancement drugs to a woman two years ago. He was taken into custody on May 21, 2016.

He is said to have killed Suyima Torres, 28. The medical examiner's office said that an embolism killed her.

The Miami Herald reports that he was charged with giving injections at a clinic that was licensed to give only massages. Ruth Planas owns the business. The Department of Health explained that the clinic had just a permit to act as a massage salon. Yet, on its Facebook page, it advertised that it has certified plastic surgeons.

But even though Robusto is listed on the jail's website, it is not clear whether he has an attorney or not.

The 43-year-old Robusto pretended to be a doctor and injected an oily, yellow substance with a plastic syringe into Torres' bottom for $1,500 in April 2013. Ten days later, she came for another treatment, spending $800.

However, she felt dizzy a few hours later and was hospitalised. She died that night, reportedly of an embolism, said the medical examiner.

Robusto flew to Venezuela but got arrested when he came back to Miami on Friday in a flight from Aruba, via Venezuela. He got arrested by Miami-Dade's homicide unit.

Admitting that he had performed the first process on Torres, he denied that he had injected her the second time in a manner that killed her, said law enforcement sources.

Cosmetic surgeries undertaken by fake doctors are often done in South Florida, particularly those that promise to enhance derrieres.

For instance, a transgender woman was taken into charge in 2012, after the cops reported that she injected "bathroom caulk, cement, Super Glue, Fix-A-Flat and mineral oil into the bodies of victims," says Miami Herald. It killed one patient in the process, according to the authorities.