Prosecutors this week charged a man posing as a doctor with assault and unauthorized practice of a profession after a 31-year-old woman went into cardiac arrest during a botched cosmetic surgery at his New York City home, leaving her brain-dead.
Felipe Hoyos Foronda was arrested at 11:30 p.m. on March 28 in connection to the medical procedure after being apprehended at JFK International Airport while allegedly attempting to flee the country, according to information from the New York Police Department and court papers obtained by USA TODAY.
The woman, whose name was redacted from a criminal complaint filed Saturday, reportedly visited Foronda’s home on 35th Street in Queens between 1 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. on March 28 to have butt lift implants removed.
There, a police detective wrote in the complaint, Foronda administered lidocaine to the woman through a syringe, causing her to go into cardiac arrest.
The woman was taken to a hospital where, the detective wrote, a doctor told police she was intubated, had no brain activity, and was “not likely to survive.”
