Las Vegas couple charged with selling illicit botox lip injections

A Las Vegas mates with nary known aesculapian grooming look felony charges for allegedly performing botox injections into customers’ lips.

In Nevada, botox injections necessitate a medicine that has to beryllium administered successful a aesculapian installation by a registered aesculapian nonrecreational who tin surface the diligent for allergies and aesculapian history, according to a Metropolitan Police Department apprehension report.

“Coco Labios,” which sanction translates to “Coco lips,” met neither of those requirements, constabulary say.

Kenny and Olga Girchenko, who constabulary accidental operated the business, were booked past week into the Clark County Detention Center connected felony counts of acting arsenic a caregiver without a licence and acting arsenic a aesculapian practitioner without a license. They were released connected their ain recognizance pursuing Las Vegas Justice Court appearances Saturday nether the information that they enactment retired of occupation and halt performing cosmetic procedures, tribunal logs show.

Olga Girchenko was booked connected 2 further misdemeanor counts of obtaining money, property, rent oregon labour nether mendacious pretense, records show.

The concern was promoted connected societal media, constabulary said.

A pistillate learned astir the concern connected Instagram and was booked an assignment successful July. She was directed to an flat connected the 3600 artifact of Palos Verde Street, adjacent Paradise Road, wherever she met “Coco” and a antheral attendant, constabulary said.

The injections outgo the pistillate $650, but she had an allergic absorption “and past a cosmetic issue” during a 2nd assignment connected Aug. 2, constabulary said.

The aforesaid day, the pistillate contacted the Nevada State Board of Nursing and Metro’s Special Investigation Section, which probes concern licenses, constabulary said. The Nevada Attorney’s Office besides got progressive and Metro launched an investigation.

The entity was not registered successful Nevada oregon anyplace other successful the U.S., constabulary said.

Police learned that “Coco Labios” moved often, but yet recovered an cognition successful the 6400 artifact of Dinning Avenue, adjacent Torrey Pines Drive and U.S. Highway 95.

After 2 days of surveillance, constabulary searched the location connected Friday, erstwhile 2 women showed up to accidental they’d booked botox injections. On the premises, constabulary said they recovered a aesculapian bed, aesculapian supplies and concern cards with a “Coco Labios” logo.

Police subsequently pulled implicit the Girchenkos and recovered botox, bloody gauzes and needles wrong their SUV.

The antheral fishy was evasive, constabulary said. Before asking for a lawyer, Olga Girchenko told them she was a massage therapist and didn’t cognize thing astir a concern called “Coco Labios.”

Booking logs didn’t database attorneys for either suspect.

A presumption cheque proceeding for some suspects was scheduled for Nov. 15, Las Vegas Justice Court logs show.

Contact Ricardo Torres-Cortez astatine rtorres@reviewjournal.com. Follow @rickytwrites connected Twitter.