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Subscribe to RSSA Florida man is facing charges of unlicensed practice of health care causing serious bodily harm after he injected silicone into at least two patients' buttocks at a motel room, according to a Palm Beach Sheriff's Office arrest report obtained Wednesday.
Calvin Edward Butler, 44, also known as Tamieka Butler, performed the injections at El Patio Motel dating back to June 2012, the report said.
The first alleged victim, a woman, told detectives in December that she received injections from Butler at the motel four times between September and October, the report said.
The victim said she would disrobe from the waist down and Butler would use a felt tip pen to mark areas on her buttocks where Butler felt she "needed fullness," according to the report.
With the victim lying down, Butler would pour out a clear liquid from a Pedialyte bottle, telling the woman it was sterile silicone, the report said. After pouring the liquid into a plastic cup, he filled syringes from the cup which he used to inject into the woman's buttocks, the report said.
Once the injections were complete, Butler would clean any blood or fluid from the skin and use Krazy Glue on the incisions, the report said. The woman was charged $200 per injection session.
Butler first told the woman he received the silicone from a nurse at Florida Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, then told her he bought it from a woman named Debra who is well known for silicone injections in the Miami area, the report said.
After the woman's last injection procedure, she began to feel painful nodules at the injection sites and she contacted Butler. Butler told her to take warm baths and massage the nodules and the symptoms would subside, the report said.
But the woman soon began to suffer from several open and oozing wounds, fevers and swollen lymph nodes, and went to the emergency room at JFK Hospital in Atlantis for treatment, the report said.
The woman was given antibiotics and discharged but was later readmitted with Lymphadentitis, a swelling of the lymph nodes due to bacterial infection. She still hasn't fully recovered, suffers from chronic pain and a chronic cough, and is now disfigured, the report said.
She also had been breast feeding when the infection occurred but her baby daughter hasn't suffered any health complications, the report said.
The second victim, a man, said he had received weekly injections from Butler between June and October 2012 at the motel, the report said. The injections were administered in the same manner as the woman, though Butler charged only $100 per session, giving a discount price since they were old friends, the report said.
Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office
Calvin Edward Butler, who also goes by the name Tamieka Butler, faces charges of unlicensed practice of health care causing serious bodily harm.
Butler told the man he had several strippers as patients who were charged $400 per visit, the report said.
When the man began developing open sores at the injection sites and contacted Butler, Butler told him to toughen up and gave him oral antibiotics, the report said.
The sores increased in size and the man was admitted to Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center in November with a severe infection. Doctors performed surgery on the man's buttocks and found cultures with MRSA and other bacteria infections, the report said.
As the man was recovering at the hospital, Butler paid him an unannounced visit in December, arriving dressed as a woman with a wig and fur coat and several large pieces of jewelry, the report said.
When the man asked Butler what he was doing there, Butler responded, You need to remember who the bi--- in charge is," the report said. Butler also said he was angry the man has sought medical attention, the report said.
Butler was being held on $15,000 bond Wednesday, and it was unknown whether he has an attorney.
The incident is just the latest in a series of arrests in South Florida for illegal buttocks injections. Just last month, a Hialeah couple was arrested after police say they performed a botched buttocks-enhancing procedure on a woman.
In 2011, a Miami Gardens woman, Oneal Ron Morris, was arrested for allegedly injecting patients with cement, Fix-a-Flat and other substances in their buttocks.
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While this fake "doctor" and others like him are criminal scumbags, I have a hard time working up much sympathy for the idiots who go in for this kind of thing in the first place.
I agree BUT it is hard to believe that someone would think a REAL doctor would do surgery in a hotel room!
How dumb can you get??? My goodness! People wake up and smell the coffee before you pretend to act smart.
Yeah, right?!
Not sure what attraction some people see when they get butt injections. Have you ever seen some of these people? How 'bout the ones that get but implants and it looks like they had a freakin 5lb bag of sugar sewn under each one of their butt cheeks...
Totally ridiculous man....
I just realised the second victim is a man. lol
"Hey Jim, how does my new butt look?"
Well in Dr But lers defense he did stay at a holiday inn before the "surgeries".
Couldn't agree with you more. You have to be a special kind of stupid to have someone perform a medical procedure on you in a hotel room. It's a shame the people are putting their lives on the line for vanity - especially the woman with an infant daughter. She's lucky she didn't orphan her kid.
Yeah, but this is the El Patio Motel. That makes a difference.
How do you a person who goes to a hotel room to have silicone injected into their butt a victim? I think partner in stupidity would be more appropriate.
We can't save the world from stupid people there are just too many of them. This seems to primarily happen in Florida. Why is that?
Anybody falling for this kind of a scam deserves their butt permanently sealed with Krazy Glue.
you have to be a complete idiot to get LEGIT butt implants, ala Nicki Minaj.
it just looks stupid, end of story - I cant grasp how that "trend" ever got started to begin with.
but you have to be a special kind of stupid to have something like this done in a motel room.
the "victims" (and i use that term loosely) should get nothing but a big ol hospital bill from all this.
and that woman should have her child taken away, clearly she lacks the good judgement and smarts that SHOULD be required to raise a child.
just one word for this whole incident... WHY???
Why? Remember the song "I like big butts"? Sir-laf-alot is to blame!
1002 uses!
Jessica, it got started because some men think that JLO and some other women stars with big AZZ's and big lips look good and if their women look like that they will give them better sex.
See that person's face in the photo!? Dayum!
This case goes a long way in favor of involuntary sterilization of mental defectives...and I don't mean the 'Doctor'
The "Dr." should be set to jail... and the patient too! She, the patient, should not be allowed to push charges or collect damages, if she is so idiotic as to believe that a sterile procedure can be performed in a hotel room using plastic cups.
The patient survived, though not a contender for the Darwin Awards.
At least this one didn't use fix-a-flat. But still, WTF is wrong with people? Letting someone inject you with something in a motel room??????
Butt injections in a motel room.... that has Great Idea written all over it!!!
Same old story. You get what you pay for.
Wounder if the silicone was made in CHINA ????
Home Depot brand, in the bathroom fixures isle.
You get what you pay for.
I really sympathize with these patients. Now that I've read the article several times, I'm only just now seeing one or two red flags, but they are so small, it's no wonder the patients overlooked them. I mean, I've always had my surgeries performed in hotel rooms and when he mentioned "Debra" as his silicone supplier, well, everyone knows Debra and, if anything, that comment could have only instilled confidence. Even his advice was spot on - especially to the male victim - "Toughen up!"
Finally, given that he was practicing in Florida where things like this NEVER happen, as much as I sympathize for the patients, I just don't see how a court can convict the fellow. A conundrum indeed...
At least they weren't killed. At least 50,000 people die each year in the U.S. from infections they catch IN THE HOSPITAL due to improper sterilization of catheters and other equipment. An untold number of individuals are addicted to opioid painkillers and completely debilitated because their physician thought that was the easiest way to treat their chronic pain. The frequency of serious iatrogenic conditions in this country is really unbelievable, and there are probably many treatments given today that will be later discovered to do great harm to individuals. Fake doc or real doc, there are risks with any intervention -- if you can live your life well without it, please try to do so.
All the people involved deserve each other!
Anyone who cannot use there own brain to figure out that this whole fad is a joke to begin with and it could cost them their life in the end. (no pun intended!)
Where do they come up with these so called good ideas? Did any of these people ever finish let alone pay any attention when in school? Do any of these people know the definition of "common sense"? Are these people related to one another by some rare chance?
I pray that none of these people involved owns a gun, my god the problems that could follow from that.
I will never be able to understand why anyone would want something like this done to there own body from anyone other than a full blown doctor of medicine that is licensed in that field. I will never also understand why anyone would even do this to themselves in the first place, if they have made it this far in life with no major problems with there own body just go with it as if it ain't broken don't fix it! Its that simple people.
Stupid is as a stupid does. You just can't make this sh!t up.
All of the people involved should seek psychiatric help as they could put someones kid through college with problems like this.
it is story's such as this that makes me aware that some people are so gullible, that they should not be allowed out of a padded room.
Meet the doctor in a motel room for my medical procedure?
Well, sure. What could possibly go wrong?
I'm not sure what I respect less, a guy posing as a Plastic Surgeon or A person so eat up with envy they need something injected into their #$%^
These are the idiots we get to insure under "Obamacare"...what a joke.
I have tears rolling down my face and still lmao at akinna99.
That's a DUDE?? And it's in Idaho,...uh, I mean FLORIDA, again!
I hope the judge says to him, "Now I'm the b*tch in charge".
Hard to believe he was "faking" being a doctor when the work is being performed at a motel. Seems the "victims" knew all along. Now they are just claiming to be victims.
So much stupidity, so little time.
To be quick about it, if you are going to a motel room for "treatments", that should be your first clue.
If your "dr" is pouring crap they are going to inject into your body from a pedialyte bottle, next clue.
If you are told they normal charge their stripper clients double what you are getting charged for...wow, another clue amongst the hundreds of them.
When will people in this country get off of the train of having other have to think for them, use your own head, use some damned common sense and THINK. There should be no compensation for being too lazy to think, and the perp should have to be treated with its own treatments if it really is guilty.
I thought this was a novel approach to avoid the high costs of hospital stays. No red flag here...
If it's good enough to hold a beverage for my kids, it's certainly good enough to be injected into me. Nope, not seeing red flag here either...
Do you know how much strippers make?! $400 for butt injections is nothing for them. I would have been honored with the discount and spent what I saved on picking up strippers with my new looks!
He's a stand up Doc and I think should be teaching at Harvard. I have no idea what you are talking about.
I just have to wonder who says "yes, lets meet a guy in a hotel room so he can inject me with stuff" and thinks it's a great idea?
Akinnna I can see you being his next victim. dumb as a box of rocks...I am a nurse and NO REAL DOCTOR WORKS OUT OF A HOTEL ROOM EVER!...All I can say is "here's your sign"...you simply can't fix stupid. on a last note ANY procedure no matter how minor BY LAW HAS TO BE PERFORMED UNDER STERILE CONDITIONS! LOL The only other thing I can think that would possess anyone such as yourself to say such stupid things as "there were no red flags" would be because you yourself are posing as a doctor out of hotels and doing the same and you hope your comments on here will help keep those who read them stupid enough to come to you.
...or it was sarcasm...
Now who's as dumb as a box of rocks?
Glenda sweety. That was sarcasm.
Here's your box of rocks, cupcake.
akinna99 - Nurses have NO sense of humor.
I, on the other hand, thought your comment was hilarious!!
Glenda05, I can't believe you took Akinna99 seriously. She was poking fun at the fools who probably said to themselves the same things she said. After all, dude was a friend of the so-called doctor so why would he be leary of his practices?? LOL!!!!
They like me! They really really like me! Whole lotta love in this room.
Sorry Glenda, my sarcasm font was off. However, I'm hoping you can read charts with a little more clarity than my posts!
So .... you go to a Motel and meet up with Calvin, who goes by the name of Tamieka. Who, pours a liquid out of a Pedialyte bottle into a dixi cup, and then injects it into your ass for $200 a pop. And then things don't work out so well .... DUH!
I am starting to really realize how smart my cat really is compared to these weirdo numbnuts out there!
Jeepgal - I heard your cat making plans with a dog (posing as a vet) to get her tailed plumped! Your cat has been secretly taking money from your wallet when you're asleep to pay for the procedure.
The "vet" keeps his silicone in an Alpo can....and practices out of a doghouse near Tampa.
OMG!!!!! jmg0201, hilarious!!!!!
I kind of like this guy Butler - He has Balls! Judge Judy once said "intelligence has limitations, stupidity has no limitations"
It sounds to me like the silicone injections were actually being inserted where these's people's brains reside.
Over the years, gravity has proven not to be my friend. Even so, I wouldn't consider an "inexpensive" medical procedure to cure the problem if that procedure had to be performed in a motel room. Just the idea makes me shiver with disgust.
lmao...fix-a-flat...
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They need to rename it Fix-A-Flat-A**
The substance ( brand named "Krazy Glue" as well as other brands) has been used by (real) doctors to close small wounds for decades. Oh, well, just another column with a ridiculous title.
"Krazy Glue" actually was first made to be used in medical procedures before it became a household item. My mother back in the early '80 had it injected into her main artery to close off brain aneurisms. That wasn't his problem...I'm thinking the whole "silicone" injection was the problem...sick people!
Krazy Glue is still toxic and is a problem. There are saner alternatives to it that are used in modern medicine.
Not just small wounds. I had a six incher that they glued shut.
They use staples and power tools, come on, it should have been the warning label. Good for in door out door use.
@JSteve7, yes, but they almost certainly used a different and specific glue, not Krazy Glue.
my paper boy used a stapler to close my wounds.
Darn it, I have a typo in my first post, I hope the spelling police don't har-ASS me over the word these's.
You will be the butt of their jokes for sure.
The fact that it's at a motel didn't throw any red flags??
It was the One Stop Motel. Models were walking outside for show.
I have never met a doctor at a motel, but I have PLAYED doctorat one with a significant other, hehe! NO injections, either!
The stupidity of some people will never cease to amaze me. If you agree to have a procedure done by some "doctor" that is obviously a legitimate and successful one since he is based out of your local Motel 6, then you DESERVE to have the scarred and infected buttocks that was the result of a procedure using Goo-Off, bubble gum, and ductape!
Hay you can make a great looking buttocks with Ductape ask any man! We can build a world with ductape! Dud did use ductape. Don't get the ductape police involved. It was Krazy Glue, know krazy Glue and ductape, you got lips.
It looks like the so called Doctor has put the injections in his face cheeks,looks like a butt face.lol.
I'd hate to be him in prison.
You got that right. Man, is that guy butt ugly or what?
I know. His face looks swollen. I actually thought that it was the same freak from last time, but no. It's a different freak. Ewww
This is how all MD's will practice under Obamacare
Don't be ridiculous. If you think this idiot in the hotel room was a doctor, you'd probably be one of the ones served.
Sure he believed it. He's a republican.
Here we go with politics, AGAIN!
Other than the stupidity of having surgery performed in a hotel room and thinking it would turn out well, using "Crazy Glue" is not a big deal. Cyanoacrylate adhesives (crazy Glue, Super Glue, etc...) have been used for bonding skin since at least the 1960's and is considered superior to stitches in many situations. When all of my female cats were spayed, their outer incision were glued back together and not stitched. And if its good enough for my cats, its good enough for anyone that would get injected from a plastic cup in a motel room.
BTW, people. Once a fluid is poured into a plastic cup, you should probably no longer consider it "sterile"...
My daughter's chin was glued back together after a nasty gash. Healed up without stitches and almost no scar. It wasn't Krazy Glue out of the tube, though. It was sterile, sealed and a one-shot dose.
Double post
How is it that half the stupid people in this country haven't already killed off the other half?
Just guessing but their too stupid!
I love that irolland,that's the funnest thing I have heard all day. ha-ha-ha.
Mitch McConnel must have had this procedure done by the same person- Mitchs face looks like its been injected with almost as much bs as he spews forth when talking.
People in Florida may be some of the dumbest in America.
Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama says that federal law enforcement agencies have "bigger fish to fry" than prosecuting marijuana users in Colorado and Washington, which voted in November to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.
Obama made explicit in an interview to air Friday on ABC News that prosecution of marijuana users in the two states would be placed low on his Justice Department's list of law enforcement priorities, but that certain issues must still be ironed out as more states could pass similar legislation
I SAY , FIRE OBAMA FOR NOT FOLLOWING THE FEDERAL LAWS ON MARIJUANA.
Post the story. It does not belong here. Off topic.
Oh, yeah, locking up pot smokers. That's what the President should be focused on.
That does bring up a very pleasent image, however: Imagine an America where one of the President's top priorities is people smoking pot in Washington & Colorado. What a wonderful country we'd have if that's what we had to worry about.
Hate to say it but you can't fix dumb
At what point do you realize it's a scam and not a legit doctor... when he pours goop out of a Pedialyte bottle, when the goop is syringed out of a red Dixie cup, or when he puts your ass back together with wacky glue?
Seriously, everyone involved in this case has a few tools missing from the shed.
I lost some Fix-A-Flat from my shed anybody found that yet??
Oh Doc, I have a blow out in my ass, can you fix it with some Fix-a-Flat?
The Darwin Awards are always looking for new recipients. There's certainly never a shortage of applicants!
Unfortunately, unless the killed themselves or eliminated their methods of procreation they are ineligible for the award.
The "victims" of this crime should do themselves a favor...just stare in the mirror at yourself and yell, "DERP!!!"
Is this story serious? I mean who in their own right mind would go to a motel room to get buttocks filling material? This has to be some made up story because nobody would be that stupid, right? Just when I thought I have read the stupidest story of the day, this one gets a headline. Personally it is hard to feel sorry for anyone that undergoes this type of procedure that is not in a medical facility. What in the world are people smoking, drinking, and thinking nowdays? Yesterday some kindergartener had to go through a psyciatric evaluation for talking about bringing a bubble blowing gun to school and she got suspended for 10 days. Now if a kindergartener has to go through a head shrink then the people that have these procedures done on them in motel rooms definitely need a psyciatric evaluation.
Then sentence them to a stupid-rehab clinic for however long it takes.