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The sham doctor charged with killing a mom of two described to cops how his patient started slurring her words and lost consciousness following a botched butt-implant removal procedure at his Queens apartment — prompting him to panic, prosecutors revealed Monday.
Felipe Hoyos Foronda, 37, was moments from boarding a flight to Florida at JFK Airport when police nabbed him on March 28, just hours after Maria Penaloza was left-brain dead by the illegal $1,900 procedure in his Astoria living room, according to an indictment.
“I injected her in the ass,” he allegedly told cops bluntly when he was hauled back to the precinct for questioning.
“After I injected her, she started to speak funny, then she stopped speaking, and then she tensed up,” Foronda continued, according to prosecutors.
“Slurred speech is normal during this type of anesthesia,” he allegedly insisted, while noting, “even though, after she tightened up, she didn’t respond.”
Penaloza, 31, was rushed to the hospital by paramedics, and Foronda then hastily cleaned up the room and made a beeline for the airport, prosecutors said.
He booked a flight to Florida en route to Colombia, “so he could evade arrest and prosecution, because he claimed he was scared,” Queens Assistant District Attorney Gregory Lasak, Jr., said in court Monday.
Outside the courtroom, Penaloza’s mother, Gladys Cabrera, blasted the accused quack as “an assassin.”
“He’s a danger to society. This was premeditated,” she said through tears.
The dead woman’s sister, Lucy Penaloza, called for Foronda to “pay the consequences.”
“The family is paying the consequences and we’re waiting for him to suffer the full weight of the law,” she said. “How many women have been affected by him?”
According to prosecutors, Foronda admitted to having done the type of procedure that led to Penaloza’s death “hundreds of times,” telling cops, “Word of mouth has given me my business.”
“I’ve been practicing in that apartment for a few months,” he said, despite also fessing up that “I’m not a licensed doctor here. I understand that I’m not allowed to practice medicine.”
Prosecutors said Penaloza went to Foronda to have implants removed and was led into the living room of his Astoria apartment — a makeshift operating room — where she was hooked up to an IV of lidocaine.
“She began to slur her speech,” Queens Assistant District Attorney Gregory Lasak, Jr., said in court. “Her body began to tense up, and she eventually went into cardiac arrest.
“Firefighters and EMTs responded to the location and work on the victim on scene for approximately 30 minutes, attempting to revive her,” Lasak said. “But when they arrived, she was pulseless and she wasn’t breathing. Eventually, the victim was moved to Mount Sinai in Astoria, where staff in the emergency room continued to administer life saving measures to attempt to save her life.
“She went approximately two hours without a pulse, and the damage to her body was irreversible.”
Cops caught up with Foronda moments before he boarded his flight, as he waited on line at a Starbucks at the terminal, and hauled him back to the Queens stationhouse, Lasak said.
“I panicked, I went straight to the airport. I booked the flight while I was driving,” he allegedly told detectives.
Cops searched his car and found a bag on the floor with used syringes, latex gloves and an empty bottle of lidocaine that “appeared that it was removed from the location,” according to prosecutors.
On Monday, Foronda was arraigned on a grand jury indictment charging him with second-degree manslaughter, second degree assault and unauthorized practice of a profession.
“We are not okay,” said Valentina Penaloza, the victim’s niece. “We want justice. This was a murder.”
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