A mother-daughter duo from Texas has been arrested on suspicion of conducting illegal butt injection operations nationwide.
The two men, identified as Consuelo Dal Bo, 56, and Isabella Dal Bo, 18, were arrested Wednesday in a sting operation in Houston. According to ABC13.
The two women thought they were meeting with a customer who had charged them $6,000 for an illegal procedure. They had just returned from California, where they were also conducting illegal business.
Mother and daughter plan to inject the undercover agent with an unlabeled brown liquid. According to court documents obtained by Fox 26.
The mother, a Texas-licensed cosmetologist, also allegedly offered the officer Xanax to calm him down before the procedure.
Officers then arrived at the scene and recovered bottles containing illegal injection drugs and medical equipment from a bag at the scene. Click2Houston reported.
Afterwards, they allegedly claimed they “didn’t even know what was in the bottle.”
The sting operation was led by the Houston Police Department’s Major Offenders Unit, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Department of Homeland Security.
The mother and daughter have now been charged with illegal drug activity, and the mother faces additional drug charges.
They were released on bond and are scheduled to appear in court on April 10, according to Click2Houston.
The FDA has long warned against the use of injectable dermal fillers for body contouring, saying they can lead to long-term pain, infection, serious injury, and even death. .
“Injectable silicone oil” [breaks] They break down into smaller particles throughout the body and can cause permanent damage and life-threatening complications such as stroke, embolism, and even death,” says Dr. Cosmetic, a certified cosmetic nurse at Perlman Plastic Surgery in New York. Lisa Vasquez says. told USA Today.
She added that injections are difficult to reverse, even for the most skilled plastic surgeons.
“Removal requires direct incision or ultrasound-assisted VASER liposuction. [which] Remove the injected silicone, silicone tumor, and scar tissue. But nothing can dissolve liquid silicone. ”
Granulomas, or clumps of white blood cells and other tissue, also need to be “surgically removed,” Vasquez added.
The FDA also says that because silicone doesn’t break down, it stays in the body forever.
