Inside two weeks of an Orange County man’s launch from jail after serving a sentence for impersonating a medical skilled and performing unlicensed beauty procedures, officers say he once more tried to open an unlawful Botox apply.
Elias Renteria Segoviano, 63, is dealing with new fees after his probation officer observed he had once more tried to lease out an area on the Phenix Salon Suites in Brea. It was there that he beforehand operated — illegally — a enterprise known as Botox in Anaheim, based on a information launch from the Orange County district lawyer.
Elias Renteria Segoviano admitted performing invasive procedures with doubtlessly counterfeit substances, officers say.
(Orange County district lawyer’s workplace)
Final month, prosecutors stated, Segoviano offered the suite homeowners with a faux identify and shared plans to carry out Botox injections and face thread lifting — each of which require medical authorizations that Segoviano doesn’t have. Segoviano additionally utilized for a enterprise license from town of Brea, although it was denied, prosecutors stated.
Segoviano, of Brea, was first arrested in July 2022 on the Phenix Salon, the place officers stated he focused Spanish-speaking girls and carried out a variety of beauty procedures on greater than two dozen victims. Procedures included Botox and lip and face fillers that Segoviano admitted used doubtlessly dangerous and counterfeit medication, based on the district lawyer.
Segoviano later pleaded responsible to a number of felonies, together with the unauthorized apply of medication, false indication of a medical license and perjury. He additionally pleaded responsible to misrepresenting himself as a licensed medical practitioner, the misrepresentation of {qualifications} and impersonating knowledgeable nurse, all misdemeanors.
“Segoviano admitted performing invasive procedures and injecting victims with doubtlessly counterfeit Botox, fillers, anesthetics, and different medical medication that positioned the general public at excessive threat,” the district lawyer’s assertion stated.
He was sentenced to 4 years however was launched in December after incomes credit score for time served in jail earlier than pleading responsible. After being freed, he was positioned on group supervision.
A couple of month later, Segoviano was once more arrested, and he stays in jail on $20,000 bail, prosecutors stated. He has been charged with two felony counts of the unauthorized apply of medication and one misdemeanor rely of falsely representing himself as a licensed medical practitioner.
“This man walked the stroll and talked the speak of being a licensed medical skilled, however he was something however what he pretended to be,” Orange County Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer stated in a press release. “The truth that he was out of jail lower than two weeks — and whereas beneath supervision — when he returned proper again to a lifetime of crime makes it painfully apparent that he has no intention of adjusting his conduct and he’ll proceed to attempt to become profitable off unsuspecting girls each probability that he will get.”
The district lawyer’s workplace requested anybody who might need been handled by Segoviano to contact investigator Jesse Alfonzo at (714) 834-6538.
