Toronto police say a man has been charged after allegedly posing as a surgeon, then injecting four women with what they believed were Botox, Salmon DNA and Ozempic treatments.
Police say they arrested a 29-year-old man Saturday on seven counts of assault with a weapon as well as a common nuisance charge.
Investigators allege the man approached four women at a dog park in downtown Toronto, near Bay Street and Queens Quay, where he posed as a surgeon at a local hospital and offered them cosmetic procedures out of his home.
Police say the women went to the man’s home and received what they believed were injections of Salmon DNA, a skin treatment, along with Botox, a wrinkle-reducing shot, and Ozempic, a diabetes medication used off-label for weight loss.
The women became suspicious of the man’s behaviour and contacted police after learning he was not qualified to perform the procedures.
A police spokesperson says it’s still unclear what substance the alleged injections contained, but none of the victims had to be taken to hospital.