A phony doctor facing trial for maiming and injuring clients in a Queens plastic-surgery clinic has resurfaced in South America, where he’s hung up a shingle and started performing medical procedures, authorities said yesterday.
Vicente Galarza, 49, was last seen in the United States two weeks ago, but he’s already re-established a cosmetic-surgery practice in his native Ecuador, a detective testified in Queens Supreme Court.
Galarza was trained as a doctor in Latin America but doesn’t have a license to practice medicine in the United States.
He was charged with six counts of assault for allegedly operating a blood-splattered Corona clinic where clients came for buttocks augmentation, nose jobs, breast enhancements, face lifts and liposuction, and left with serious infections and unsightly scars.
He faces two to seven years in prison on each assault count.
State Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter forfeited Galarza’s $25,000 cash bail and ordered the fugitive be tried in absentia on Jan. 13.