{"id":210144,"date":"2012-08-31T15:48:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T20:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=210144"},"modified":"2012-09-02T16:59:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T21:59:21","slug":"carmel-foster-sentenced-to-18-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=210144","title":{"rendered":"Carmel Foster Sentenced to 18 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=168820\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-168820\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/03\/Carmel-Foster-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Carmel Foster\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-168820\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 The Tyler Salon owner accused of practicing medicine without a license will spend the next 18 years behind bars. KETK reports Carmel Foster was sentenced to 8 years on the first count, and 10 years on the second. The sentences are to be served consecutively. She will also have to pay $29,000 in fines. Foster was accused of injecting an unknown gel into a woman as part of a breast augmentation. Foster owns the Queen Divas salon in Tyler, where the injections allegedly took place.<\/p>\n<p>On February 19, 2012, Tyler Police were contacted by family members of a victim who said she had a breast augmentation procedure performed on both her breasts at Foster\u2019s salon. The victim, Sheena Bradford of Longview, was admitted into a Longview hospital for severe chest pains and spent some time in the hospital. Tyler Investigators determined that the procedure was conducted for a fee in a back room of Queen Divas Hair Salon in Tyler. Carmel Foster pleaded guilty to the charges. However, soon after, she called the KETK newsroom, claiming her attorney, O.W. Loyd, misrepresented her. There\u2019s no word on whether that claim will be pursued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 The Tyler Salon owner accused of practicing medicine without a license will spend the next 18 years behind bars. KETK reports Carmel Foster was sentenced to 8 years on the first count, and 10 years on the second. The sentences are to be served consecutively. She will also have to pay $29,000 in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=210144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carmel Foster Sentenced to 18 Years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 14:26:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210144"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210583,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210144\/revisions\/210583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}