Unlicensed “Doctor” Busted for Allegedly Giving Facial Injections in Undercover Sting
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A woman posing as a doctor and providing unauthorized cosmetic procedures was apprehended during a police sting operation.

On February 19, authorities arrested Mayling Maya-Giraldo, 31, at her studio in Miami when undercover officers arranged and paid for a Botox session.

Court documents, as viewed by Oxygen, reveal that Maya-Giraldo faces charges for practicing medicine without a license, possessing drugs with intent to sell or distribute, and falsely claiming to hold a medical license.

Despite the charges, Maya-Giraldo has entered a plea of not guilty, according to the same court documents.

Maya-Giraldo allegedly ran two Instagram accounts (mayling.stetic and Dra.Mayling.Setetic) per an arrest affidavit obtained by Oxygen, where she used the title “Doctor” in her bio and posted videos of herself performing procedures such as, Botox injections, lip fillers and Endolift laser treatments. 

The affidavit details that on February 19, officials set up a Botox appointment with Maya-Giraldo through Instagram direct messages. She allegedly requested a photo from the “patient,” who was, in fact, a medical quality assurance investigator from the Florida Department of Health, and recommended Botox for the forehead to “remove wrinkles and expression lines.”

The procedure’s cost, as communicated by Maya-Giraldo through Instagram, was allegedly set at $450.

The investigator and an undercover detective arrived for the appointment, according to the affidavit, and Maya-Giraldo collected the fee. Maya-Giraldo then wiped off the investigator’s makeup and rubbed lidocaine cream on her face, before filling a vial with a product. 

At that point, an unspecified “take-down signal” was given, read the affidavit, and Maya-Giraldo was arrested by detectives with the Medical Crime Squad. 

When asked, Maya-Giraldo allegedly told investigators that she did not have a license to practice medicine anywhere in the United States, according to the affidavit, but she had “certifications” to inject Botox. 

Maya-Giraldo was not only unlicensed, read the affidavit, when investigators took a closer look at the product she had planned to inject, they determined it was Toxta, a “foreign and unapproved” product from South Korea that requires a prescription and cannot be dispensed in the United States.  

Maya-Giraldo was transported her to the Miami-Dade County Jail. Her arraignment date, per court records, is scheduled for April 20. 

An attorney for Maya-Giraldo and a spokesperson from the Florida Department of Health did not immediately return a request for comment from Oxygen

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