{"id":36262,"date":"2025-07-03T20:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T20:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36262\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T20:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T20:55:14","slug":"texas-medical-board-orders-houston-woman-to-stop-after-fake-botox-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/36262\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Medical Board orders Houston woman to stop after fake Botox procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON, Texas <\/strong> \u2013 A Houston woman accused of giving illegal injections to patients at a southwest Houston cosmetic business has been issued a cease and desist order by the Texas Medical Board. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Alegna Delgado James, 32, is facing three felony charges in Harris County connected to the alleged unlicensed procedures involving fake Botox and Juv\u00e9derm. She is currently on bond. <\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Delgado James worked at ABS Aesthetic, located in the 7900 block of Hillcroft, which has now permanently closed, according to the cease and desist order. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Houston police arrested Delgado James in December, and records show she was charged with two additional counts of practicing medicine without a license in January. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">She is accused of defrauding at least two victims out of $3,400, according to the cease and desist order, and told at least two victims that she was a medical doctor in Cuba. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">But the Texas Medical Board says she was never actually licensed to practice in Texas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">She has cooperated with the investigation, according to records, and has now been prohibited from acting as or holding herself out to be a licensed physician in the state of Texas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">If Delgado James violates the order, she could be fined $5,000 for each violation or each day of the continuing violation, according to records. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas \u2013 A Houston woman accused of giving illegal injections to patients at a southwest Houston cosmetic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[29640,4345,358,29639,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-36262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-botox","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-medical-board","12":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114791299650247845","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}