Posted 3:16 am Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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Woman Indicted For Performing Illegal Medical Procedures
By DAYNA WORCHEL
Staff Writer
A Smith County grand jury indicted a Tyler woman on March 29 of two counts of practicing medicine without a license.
Staff Writer
A Smith County grand jury indicted a Tyler woman on March 29 of two counts of practicing medicine without a license.
Carmel Mitchelle Foster, 38, is accused of injecting two women with a clear, liquid gel substance who came to her salon seeking breast and buttock augmentations.
Ms. Foster owns the Queen Divas salon on Martin Luther King Boulevard in Tyler.
Ms. Foster owns the Queen Divas salon on Martin Luther King Boulevard in Tyler.
One of the women had to be hospitalized in Longview in February and placed on a ventilator because of a pneumothorax (a buildup of air) and blood in both lungs, Tyler police have said. The woman has since been released from the hospital.
Tyler police spokesman Don Martin said on Monday that he had no further information on the woman's condition.
Ms. Foster, who has a hearing in the Smith County 7th District Court on June 25, has been in the Smith County Jail since Feb. 28 on a $200,000 bond.
Tyler police spokesman Don Martin said on Monday that he had no further information on the woman's condition.
Ms. Foster, who has a hearing in the Smith County 7th District Court on June 25, has been in the Smith County Jail since Feb. 28 on a $200,000 bond.
O.W. Lloyd, Ms. Foster's attorney, said Monday that community members and friends of Ms. Foster are trying to raise money for her release from jail. Lloyd said he could not comment further on the case.
An arrest affidavit prepared by Tyler Police Detective Andy Erbaugh stated that the woman who had to be hospitalized experienced pain in her chest and shortness of breath as soon as she was injected with the substance.
An arrest affidavit prepared by Tyler Police Detective Andy Erbaugh stated that the woman who had to be hospitalized experienced pain in her chest and shortness of breath as soon as she was injected with the substance.
“She stated her breast immediately swelled up and the gel began pouring out of the needle holes. She stated the suspect put super glue on the hole and placed a cotton swab on the super glue,” the affidavit stated.
Ms. Foster told the women she was working under the direction of a doctor in Houston and was using a saline solution gel in the procedures, according to the affidavit.
The second victim has told police she developed a rash around the injection site and is now under a physician's care. Both women said the procedure was done in a back room on a couch full of laundry, the affidavit stated.
According to a list of items seized from Queen Divas on a search warrant, volumes of needles and syringes of various sizes, packages of Krazy Glue, rubber gaskets, latex gloves, cyclobenzaprine (a muscle relaxer), pseudoephedrine (sinus medication) methylprednisolone (a corticosteroid drug), surgical tape, a bloody cotton ball, a jar with unknown substance and an open tube of Gasket Maker Super Clear silicone were taken from the salon.
Staff Writer Kenneth Dean contributed to this story.
Ms. Foster told the women she was working under the direction of a doctor in Houston and was using a saline solution gel in the procedures, according to the affidavit.
The second victim has told police she developed a rash around the injection site and is now under a physician's care. Both women said the procedure was done in a back room on a couch full of laundry, the affidavit stated.
According to a list of items seized from Queen Divas on a search warrant, volumes of needles and syringes of various sizes, packages of Krazy Glue, rubber gaskets, latex gloves, cyclobenzaprine (a muscle relaxer), pseudoephedrine (sinus medication) methylprednisolone (a corticosteroid drug), surgical tape, a bloody cotton ball, a jar with unknown substance and an open tube of Gasket Maker Super Clear silicone were taken from the salon.
Staff Writer Kenneth Dean contributed to this story.
