A South Texas woman has been sentenced to almost 1 1/2 years in federal prison for injecting customers' buttocks with bootleg liquid silicone she had brought in from Mexico.
A federal judge in McAllen sentenced Maribel Quintero on Tuesday to 16 months in prison and ordered to pay $15,760 in restitution after she pleaded guilty to violating the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act.
A female customer testified at the sentencing hearing that she required hospitalization for an infection after receiving liquid silicone injections in her buttocks from the 39-year-old Pharr woman.
The injections weren't approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and Quintero admitted to marketing the injections as safe when they weren't.
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