A Stoughton, Massachusetts woman has been arrested and charged in connection with smuggling goods into the United States and selling/dispensing counterfeit drugs and devices.

The 38-year-old woman was charged by criminal complaint with one count of illegally importing merchandise contrary to law, one count of selling or dispensing a counterfeit drug, and one count of selling or dispensing a counterfeit device. She was arrested the morning of Friday, November 1 and was due to appear in federal court in Worcester at 1 p.m. that afternoon.

According to the charging documents, since March 2021, the owner of Skin Beaute Med Spa, with locations in Randolph and South Easton, Mass., has been importing counterfeit Botox, Sculptra and Juvederm from China and Brazil and performing thousands of injections of counterfeit drugs and devices for which she received over $900,000 in client payments. It is alleged that she consistently represented to clients and employees that she is a nurse; in fact, she is an aesthetician and is not licensed nor certified to dispense or administer prescription drugs or devices. According to payment records, from approximately March 2021 through March 2024, she completed approximately 1,631 Botox appointments, totaling $522,869 in client payments, and 1,085 filler appointments, totaling $410,545 in client payments.

Read more at U.S. Food and Drug Administration >>