Fw: Woman's Death Tied to Illegal Surgery ~ Buttock Implants

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From: " Ilena Rose " <ilena@...>

Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 4:12 PM

Subject: Woman's Death Tied to Illegal Surgery ~ Buttock Implants

> Saturday, March 24, 2001 | >

> http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010324/t000025417.html

> Woman's Death Tied to Illegal Surgery

>

> From Times Wire Reports

>

> Police in South Florida searched for a man suspected of accidentally

> killing a woman during illegal plastic surgery to enlarge her buttocks.

>

> Vera Lawrence, a 53-year-old employee in Miami-Dade County's

> community development division, died in a local hospital after being

> injected in the buttocks with either silicon or collagen, police in the

> Fort Lauderdale suburb of Miramar said.

>

> Hospital officials phoned police to report the suspicious death of

> the woman, brought in by rescue workers after suffering breathing

> difficulties at an apartment building.

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