Las Vegas man accused of making, selling fake COVID-19 treatment

A Las Vegas antheral has been arrested successful transportation with allegations that helium manufactured and sold a bogus COVID-19 attraction that national authorities accidental poses “significant risks to diligent health.”

According to a Las Vegas constabulary apprehension study for Elias Daniel Beltran Suarez, 53, helium was arrested precocious Monday day aft an online sleuth contacted police, saying Suarez was selling chlorine dioxide, besides known arsenic Miracle Mineral Solution CD, connected a societal media level arsenic a occurrence cure for autism, COVID-19 and cancer.

Police said they searched Suarez’s flat adjacent Valley View Boulevard and Pennwood Avenue connected Monday, turning up an evident chemic laboratory utilized to manufacture the bleaching cause treatment.

“(His) deficiency of oversight is unlawful and creates a unsafe concern for the community, the patients and nationalist astatine large,” constabulary wrote successful the report.

Suarez was booked Monday astatine the Clark County Detention Center connected a azygous felony number of acting arsenic a aesculapian practitioner without a license.

The Food and Drug Administration has warned radical not to devour chlorine dioxide products.

“Despite erstwhile warnings, the FDA is acrophobic that we are inactive seeing chlorine dioxide products being sold with misleading claims that they are harmless and effectual for the attraction of diseases, present including COVID-19,” FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn stated successful an April 2020 quality release. “The merchantability of these products tin jeopardize a person’s wellness and hold due aesculapian treatment.”

The FDA said the merchandise is simply a liquid that is 28 percent sodium chlorite successful distilled water.

Product directions instruct consumers to premix the sodium chlorite solution with citric acerb – specified arsenic citrus oregon lime foodstuff – oregon different acid, specified arsenic hydrochloric acerb – earlier drinking. In galore instances, the sodium chlorite is sold arsenic portion of a kit with a citric acerb “activator,” the FDA said. When the acerb is added, the substance becomes chlorine dioxide, a almighty bleaching cause that has caused superior and perchance life-threatening broadside effects.

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