Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

April hearing set for woman in underground eye lift surgery case

New York woman claims to have been a physician in China

Jing Qu

Metro Police

Jing Qu, 55, of Flushing, N.Y., was arrested in connection with performing illegal surgical procedures.

A New York woman who is accused of performing unlicensed plastic surgery in the Las Vegas Valley — eye lifts — has had her preliminary hearing delayed for about two weeks.

Jing Qu, 55, of Flushing , N.Y., who authorities say was doing surgery in the living room of a southwest valley home, was to have had the hearing this morning. But at the request of attorneys, it was reset for 8 a.m. April 10 in Las Vegas Justice Court.

Qu, who is out of custody on $100,000 bail, has been charged with one count of burglary and two counts of practicing medicine without a license for performing eye lifts and injections on two women.

According to Metro police, officers responded Nov. 7, 2011, to a home in the 7700 block of Somerhill Point Way after receiving a phone call from a neighbor who reported the surgery.

The neighbor had gone over to the home to complain about a vehicle blocking a driveway and saw three people inside the home performing surgery, police said.

According to a police report, when officers arrived they saw a portable padded massage table set up in the living room and saw one bloody latex glove on the living room floor and another in the bathroom.

Officers also said they saw that the homeowner, Ping Zhang, had a bandage over her right eye, the police report said.

Officers then made contact with a second woman, Hong Sheng, who had stitches above both eyebrows and had dried blood on her forehead, the arrest report said.

Sheng told officers that she knew Qu from their home town of Bejing, China, and had paid Qu $800 for an eyelift surgical procedure. Sheng said Qu injected her with a substance for pain before the procedure, the arrest report said.

Zhang told police she paid Qu $1,000 for her eye lift surgery, and that Qu had injected her with a painkiller prior to the procedure, according to the arrest report.

Through a Mandarin Chinese interpreter, Qu told police she was a physician in China who specialized in plastic surgery but was not licensed to practice medicine in the U.S., according to the arrest report.

During a search of the home, police uncovered medical items such as gauze, hemostats and surgical blades, police said. Police said they also found local anesthetics and other unknown medications, many of which were labeled in Chinese.

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