Tyler Salon Owner Transported to Smith County

TYLER — (AP & STAFF) The owner of a Tyler beauty salon wanted for practicing medicine without a license remains in the Smith County Jail, and more details are emerging about allegations against her. Tyler Police tell KETK Carmel Foster, the owner of Queen Divas Hair Salon and Spa, faces charges related to a botched breast augmentation allegedly performed in her salon. She was arrested in Harrison County last week and was being held there pending extradition.

Police were contacted by family members of Sheena Bradford who said that she had a breast augmentation procedure performed on both her breasts February 15 and had been admitted into a Longview hospital for severe chest pains. Her condition remains critical. Tyler Investigators determined that the procedure was conducted for a fee in a back room of the salon located at 102 East Martin Luther King Street, in Tyler.

Bradford was hospitalized with severe chest pain after the injection administered at Carmel Foster’s beauty shop. In a police affidavit, Bradford said Foster injected her with 12 syringes filled with the unknown clear gel on Feb. 15, her breasts immediately became swollen and the gel oozed from the sites holes until Foster sealed them.

Two days later, Bradford was hospitalized with what doctors diagnosed as built-up blood and air in her lungs. Foster’s charged with two counts of practicing medicine without a license and is in Smith County Jail. According to jail records, her bond has been set at $2,000,000.