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Court date scheduled in salon owner trial

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TYLER (TYLER MORNING TELEGRAPH) - The trial for a Tyler salon owner accused of injecting women seeking breast and buttock augmentations with a gel substance is scheduled to begin on July 30, Smith County Assistant District Attorney Richard Vance said Tuesday.

Carmel Foster, 39, owner of Queen Divas salon in Tyler, is charged with two counts of practicing medicine without a license.

The trial was reset to the later date because of another case ahead of it on the docket in the Smith County 7th District Judge Kerry Russell's court was ready for trial this week. Ms. Foster faces up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine if she is convicted.

Defense attorney O.W. "Buddy" Lloyd is representing Ms. Foster.

One woman was hospitalized in Longview in February and placed on a ventilator because of a pneumothorax, a buildup of air and blood in the lungs, after she received the injections. She has since been released from the hospital.

In the February arrest affidavit prepared by Tyler Police Detective Andy Erbaugh, the victim who was hospitalized said as Ms. Foster performed the procedure, which consisted of injecting 12 syringes full of a clear gel substance into her body, she felt severe pain.

"She stated her breast immediately swelled up and the gel began pouring out of the needle holes. She stated the suspect put super glue on the hole and placed a cotton swab on the super glue," the affidavit said.

Erbaugh stated in the affidavit the woman experienced shortness of breath and pain in her chest. Foster told the women she was working under the direction of a doctor in Houston and was using a saline solution gel in the procedures.

A second victim told police in February that she developed a rash around the injection site and was under a physician's care. The women said the procedure was done in a back room on a couch full of laundry.

According to a list of items seized from the Queen Divas salon on a search warrant, volumes of needles and syringes of various sizes, packages of Krazy Glue, rubber gaskets, latex gloves, cyclobenzaprine (a muscle relaxer), pseudoephedrine (sinus medication) methylprednisolone (a corticosteroid drug), surgical tape, a bloody cotton ball, a jar with unknown substance and an open tube of Gasket Maker Super Clear silicone were taken from the salon.
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