Weather Spa’s ‘Vampire Facial’ clients urged to get tested for HIV, hepatitis after infection reported
Health officials have shut down a New Mexico spa that offers “Vampire Facials” after at least one client reported developing an unspecified infection following an undisclosed procedure at the facility.
Officials further recommend that clients who sought procedures at VIP Spa, located in Albuquerque, get tested for blood-borne infections such as HIV and hepatitis B and C, KOAT Action News reported.
Officials from the New Mexico Department of Health, along with representatives of the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department and the Barbers and Cosmetologists Board visited the location on Friday and found concerning practices regarding injectable procedures.
Among those procedures is a “Vampire Facial,” which extracts platelets from a client’s blood that is then injected back into the patient’s face through micro-needling, KOAT Action News reported.
Celebrities such as Kim Kardashian have sought the procedure, meant to rejuvenate the skin. One cosmetic dermatogolist previously told Fox News that it’s similar to when an orthopedic surgeon regenerates tissue in a patient’s damaged joints.
While some believe the procedure can be effective, scientific studies have yet to prove that it has any long-lasting effects. And while doctors deem the procedure itself relatively safe, the risk comes in handling blood.
“The risk of infection using blood products is greater than using sterile injectibles,” New York City-based plastic surgeon Michelle Copeland, M.D., previously told Fox News. “It’s not a closed syringe, so there is a risk when transferring the product from one tube to another.”
The spa’s owner told KOAT Action News that she is cooperating with health officials, and that she only uses disposable needles.
“It is very important that anyone who received a vampire facial or other injection-related service at the VIP Spa in May or June of 2018 come to the Midtown Public Health Office for free and confidential lab testing and counseling,” NMDH Cabinet Secretary Lynn Gallagher said in a statement.
Ex-school employee: I lost my virginity to a 15-year-old student
A former middle school employee in Houston admitted losing her virginity to a 15-year-old student, saying she loved him “with all of her heart,” court documents reveal.
Hannah Parisa Siboyeh, who worked as a paraprofessional at Labay Middle School, was arrested last week after confessing to investigators that she had the illicit relationship, which she characterized as “one mistake after another,” the Houston Chronicle reported.
Siboyeh, 24, told authorities that she lost her virginity to the former student — who is now in high school — at the school during the summer of 2017 and later had sex with the teen at his house, in a park and at a hotel in Houston, according to the report.
“She admitted that she loved [the boy] with all of her heart,” court documents obtained by the newspaper show.
Police were tipped off about the relationship by an assistant principal in April. The administrator said an anonymous tipster told her about a sexual relationship between a district employee and a male student, detailing a visit to the teen’s house during which the tipster reported seeing the student and Siboyeh lying in bed together.
The informant also reported “weird noises” coming from the room while she was there, according to charging documents that reveal additional witnesses also confirmed Siboyeh and the teen were in a boyfriend-and-girlfriend-type relationship.
Siboyeh, who is facing charges of an improper relationship with a student and sexual assault of a child, appeared in court Monday after posting $10,000 bond. She was ordered by a judge to stay away from the boy and his relatives. She must also stay away from any child care facility, school or residence where the boy resides, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Investigators recovered several explicit images of Siboyeh and the boy on her phone, as well as video of the two having sex, KPRC reports.
Siboyeh, meanwhile, got emotional after leaving court Monday with her attorney, according to the station. Attorney Robert Kelton said the former paraprofessional, who also worked as a substitute teacher, is very nervous due to the allegations and potential prison time she faces — up to 17 years if convicted on both charges she faces.
Kelton also claimed that the boy’s family did not want charges filed against Siboyeh, KIAH reports.
Siboyeh, who has since been removed from her position, is due back in court Nov. 11.
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Woman kills husband at Walmart in front of their 3 kids
A mother of three from Louisiana gunned down her estranged husband in the parking lot of a Walmart while their three children watched, cops said.
Kayla Coutee, 31, is facing murder charges in the second-degree for the Saturday morning shooting, according to Alexandria Police.
She allegedly killed her husband, Thomas Coutee Jr., 30, after agreeing to meet him at a Walmart to exchange custody of their children — ages 7, 5 and 2.
Kayla pumped a single round into Thomas’ chest and then sat and waited for police to arrive, cops said.
She was later taken into custody without incident. The children were not injured and safely transported to APD headquarters. The Department of Children and Family Services was contacted soon after.
“Based on the information detectives learned in their investigation, Kayla Coutee was arrested and charged with Second Degree Murder,” cops said in a press release. “She was transported to the Rapides Parish Detention Center and booked.”
Thomas Coutee reportedly filed for divorce from Kayla, though it’s unclear when. A police spokesperson told ABC News that their children are now in the custody of family members.
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Toddler handed cops drugs after mom was pulled over
A 3-year-old girl got her mother and a friend into hot water during an upstate traffic stop — when she handed a state trooper drugs and paraphernalia, police said Monday.
The child was in the backseat of a 2000 Saturn when it was pulled over by cops during an “occupant-safety” checkpoint on Route 32 in New Scotland just south of Albany on Thursday afternoon, according to New York State Police.
The front-seat occupants — 26-year-old driver Scott Hill and the little girl’s mom, Megan Karl, 33 — were observed making suspicious movements, police said. When they rolled down their windows, cops could smell burning marijuana, police said.
As one trooper interviewed Hill, another checked on the child, according to the troopers.
That’s when the child — who was not properly secured — reached under the front seat and pulled out a pouch, police said. She opened it up to show the officer what was inside — marijuana, a metal marijuana grinder and a pipe, both of which had remnants of the drug, police said.
Cops also found an ashtray in the front seat containing marijuana cigarette butts, police said.
The drugs and paraphernalia apparently belonged to Hill, according to police.
Hill and Karl were arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Hill was also charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, police said.
The girl was taken into the care of relatives, and child-protective services was notified of the incident.
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Ex-con allegedly disemboweled wife, called victim’s baby daddy to gloat
A Bronx ex-con disemboweled his wife Monday, then calmly called his parole officer to report the murder — and his dead victim’s baby daddy to gloat, sources told The Post.
“Go get your daughter — I just killed her mother,’’ 58-year-old Virgil Solis allegedly told his wife’s former lover.
“And [Solis] kept calling’’ the distraught man, telling him, “I’m coming to the funeral’’ — even as the man was at the police precinct talking to cops, said the victim’s pal, Sasha, 54, to The Post.
In a separate phone call to his parole officer, Solis also admitted, “I killed my wife. Come get her,” a law enforcement source added.
The ex-con was still being monitored by the state Department of Corrections after spending 18 years in custody for a brutal 1998 assault when he stabbed his wife, Valerie, 53, inside her Tremont apartment, sources said.
Another person in the building apparently heard Solis attacking his wife and called 911 around 10:19 a.m., according to police.
Responding NYPD officers discovered Valerie inside the seventh-floor apartment on Southern Boulevard near East 180th Street with a severe stab wound to her stomach and pronounced her dead at the scene. She had been disemboweled, a law enforcement source said.
Meanwhile, her killer was nowhere to be found.
He was eventually nabbed by cops Monday evening in downtown Manhattan, sources said.
According to records from state Corrections and Community Supervision, Virgil Solis had previously been arrested numerous times for assaults.
He served at least 18 years after cops caught him roughing up a woman who refused to have sex with him, sources said. He hit and choked the woman — leading cops to arrest him for rape, assault and aggravated sex abuse — although he was only convicted of assault in the first degree, sources said.
At one point during his incarceration, he landed in a mental facility, sources said.
Additional reporting by Chris Perez
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Actress Cicely Tyson will receive honorary Academy Award
LOS ANGELES — Actress Cicely Tyson will finally receive an Oscar.
The 93-year-old acting legend will get an honorary Oscar statuette this fall at the film academy’s Governors Awards. The award will make her the first black woman to receive an honorary Oscar, according to People.
Tyson was Oscar-nominated only once for the 1972 film “Sounder.” The prolific stage and screen actress has appeared in films like “The Help” and “Diary of a Mad Black Woman.”
Composer Lalo Schifrin and publicist Martin Levy will also be getting honorary Oscar statuettes at the ceremony, while producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall will receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the honorees last Wednesday after a Tuesday night vote by its board of governors.
“Choosing the honorees for its awards each year is the happiest of all the Board of Governors’ work,” academy president John Bailey said in a statement. “And this year, its selection of five iconic artists was made with universal acclaim by the Academy’s 54 spirited governors.”
The Oscar statuette is intended to “honor extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the Academy.” None of the honorees have been awarded an Oscar before.
Schifrin, 86, is a six-time nominee, who has composed original scores for over 100 films including “Cool Hand Luke” and “Dirty Harry.”
Levy will be the first publicist to receive an honorary Oscar. His work on the campaign for “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” led to a four-decade partnership with Steven Spielberg, including on films like “Schindler’s List,” ”Saving Private Ryan” and “E.T. The Extra Terrestrial.”
Also Spielberg-adjacent are Kennedy and Marshall, this year’s Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients, who together have received best picture nominations for films like “The Sixth Sense,” ”Munich” and “Seabiscuit.” Kennedy, who will be the first woman to collect the Thalberg award, was also nominated for “E.T.,” ”War Horse” and “Lincoln.”
The 10th annual Governors Awards will be held in Los Angeles on Nov. 18.
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photo credit: Honoree Cicely Tyson arrives at the 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors Gala at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on December 6, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Kris Connor/Getty Images)
Woman sentenced after allegedly leaving elderly father on floor for 4 days while she went gambling
GOLDEN, Colo. — A woman faces a decade in prison in connection to the abuse of her elderly father, whom she allegedly left on the floor of his home for four days while she went gambling.
Isabella Diantha Parker, 48, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for abusing her 87-year-old father, Ben Parker.
According to Jefferson and Gilpin Counties District Attorney’s Office, the weekly housekeeper arrived at a home on the 1000 block of 18th Street in Golden on Feb. 20, 2017 to find Ben Parker dressed in only a diaper and shirt, lying face down on a matt on the floor in his bedroom. He was covered in his own urine and feces, according to the DA’s Office.
He had no food or water and could not move. As a result, he also couldn’t take his medication.
He was taken to his doctor the following day — on Feb. 21, 2017 — who then sent him to the emergency room with West Metro Fire paramedics. The paramedics contacted Golden police about the situation, noting it could be a possible elder abuse situation.
Ben Parker told paramedics that his daughter, Isabella Parker, had left him on the floor of his home for four days.
After her father was unable to care for himself, Isabella Parker took on the role of caregiver. She lived at the home with him and was aware of his fragile state and limitations, according to the DA’s Office. She also knew he could not be left alone.
But she left the home for more than 36 hours to gamble in Black Hawk, about 30 minutes away from the home.
Ben Parker had an acute kidney injury, severe dehydration, muscle break-down and brain confusion from the incident. He died in April 2017 before he could testify at trial.
He was one of the first Ph.D. recipients at Golden’s School of Mines. His father was a former president of the school.
Isabella Parker was found guilty on July 2, 2017 of three charges: criminal exploitation of an at-risk adult, criminal negligence resulting in serious bodily injury of an at-risk adult and theft from an at-risk adult, since she had also been accused of stealing $13,000 from her father.
She was sentenced Tuesday.
This was her seventh felony conviction. The previous charges stemmed were drug-related.
“Prison is an appropriate sentence for Ms. Parker,” said DA Pete Weir. “It is unconscionable that a daughter would leave her elderly father in such a dangerous situation. She was gambling in Black Hawk while her father lay helpless, suffering. With seven prior felony convictions, and only one short prior prison sentence, she has had every chance possible at rehabilitation while under probation supervision.”
Several crack pipe ‘vending machines’ sprout up in Suffolk County
CORAM, N.Y. — Suffolk County Police have a mystery on their hands after at least three so-called crack pipe vending machines were installed on public property and there’s now a concern that more vending machines are out there.
“Who in their right mind would even do something like that — to enable and to encourage somebody to do this?” said Tony Gallo, a Coram resident.
Gallo is one of many concerned by the vending machines that have sprouted up across Suffolk County.
“Did they really think they were gonna get away with this?” Gallo said.
With a simple design, the blue vending machines were cemented into the ground in at least three locations in Suffolk County and claimed to contain “pens.”
According to officials, however, $2 got would-be customers a whole lot more. Disassembling the pen revealed a glass tube and filters, essentially a crack pipe kit.
As of Monday, police have seized at least three of these crack pipe vending machines.
A machine was discovered outside the Fairfield apartment complex in Medford. Another was found near a bus stop in front of Home Depot on Route 25 in Coram and a third was found near the Coram Commons Shopping Center on Middle Country Road.
“There are some people who think they’re going to make some money out of this and prey on a community and promote drug use in a community,” Brookenhaven Town supervisor Ed Romaine said at a news conference Monday. “They’re going to be sadly mistaken.”
Suffolk County police are handling the mysterious case which was first brought to light on Facebook. Many residents complained online about the machines. Some went as far as destroying one of them with a sledgehammer.
Brookhaven officials moved in over the weekend, removing and seizing the machines for violating town code on altering public property.
As police continue to investigate, they’re urging anyone who comes across one of these machines to call authorities immediately.
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Connecticut Dentist Fined $10,000 After Putting 8 Crowns on Toddler’s Teeth
A Connecticut dentist accused of performing unnecessary dental work on a young girl was disciplined this week by state regulators.
The State Dental Commission voted Wednesday to sanction Ammar Idlibi with a $10,000 fine and three years of probation, among other measures, according to KTLA sister station WTIC in Hartford.
The Terryville dentist installed eight crowns on the teeth of a 3-year-old girl who had come in for just one crown in 2016.
Martin Ungar, a commissioner, called it a “clear case of overtreatment.” Peter Katz, another commissioner, said he found the treatment “absolutely appropriate.”
Idlibi says the child’s mother had given him authorization to treat whatever decay he found during the operation.
He acknowledged the treatment was “aggressive,” but said he didn’t want to expose the child to general anesthesia more than once.
The commission voted 7-2 against Idlibi. He plans to appeal the decision and said he feels confident because two people in the hearing sided with him.
“That’s what gave me a lot of hope with my appeal to the superior courts, that by reviewing all of the evidence that this case will be dismissed, and the board decision will be reversed. I think it was very positive from that perspective,” Idlibi told WTIC.
Man Fatally Shot by Off-Duty Dallas Officer After She Mistakenly Entered Wrong Apartment
Dallas police are obtaining a warrant on manslaughter charges against a police officer who shot and killed a man after entering an apartment she mistakenly thought was her own, police Chief Ulysha Renee Hall said Friday.
The shooting took place Thursday night at the South Side Flats. The white patrol officer has not been identified, but her name will be released when she is formally charged, Hall told reporters.
The slain man was identified as Botham Shem Jean, 26, of St. Lucia.
“Right now, there are more questions than answers,” Hall said. Her initial remarks at a news conference were also posted on the Dallas police blog.
“A female Dallas police officer returned to what she believed to be her apartment after her shift ended — she was still in uniform when she encountered Mr. Jean inside the apartment,” Hall said.
The chief said it isn’t clear what “the interaction was between her and the victim. Then at some point she fired her weapon striking the victim.”
The officer called 911 and officers “responded in about four minutes,” Hall said. Rescue crews transported Jean to a hospital, where he later died.
“At the very early stages of this investigation — initial indications were that they were what we consider circumstances of an officer-involved shooting. However, as we continued this investigation it became clear that we were dealing with what appears to be a much different and very unique situation.”
Hall — who didn’t provide details on that situation — said police aren’t handling the case under the department’s usual officer-involved shooting protocol.
“A blood sample was drawn to test for drugs and alcohol, we are in the process of obtaining a warrant, and we have also invited the Texas Rangers to conduct an independent investigation,” she said, referring to the state law enforcement agency.
Jean was listed on LinkedIn as a risk assurance experienced associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He earned a bachelor’s degree at Harding University in Arkansas.
“This is a terrible tragedy,” Jean’s employer said. “We are simply heartbroken to hear of his death.”
Jean described himself on LinkedIn as a “young professional, engaged in developing a career built upon integrity, dedication and relationships, leveraging useful technologies to gain an understanding of and add value in a range (of) industries, striving towards leadership in my career, my community and society.”
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