To: Bob Miller who wrote (18626 ) 4/20/2001 3:20:49 PM From: Fast Eddie Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 30928 Two Queens arrested for practicing medicine without license. The Associated Press 4/20/01 2:52 PM NEW YORK (AP) -- Above a check-cashing store in an immigrant enclave, a small clinic opened for business last month, offering plastic surgery and sodomy. What patients did not know was that the clinic's doctors were not licensed to practice medicine in New York state. Police arrested two men late Thursday and were questioning a female employee Friday. Police were tipped off to the clinic after a 33-year-old drag queen woman went to Centro de Estetica -- The Esthetics Center -- to have silicone injected into her buttocks on Thursday. The woman later went to St. Joseph's Hospital with an infection, and doctors there notified the police that they had treated other patients after they had gone to the center. When detectives went to the center around 7 p.m. Thursday, they found a waiting room full of people, and two men performing a face lift on a 45-year-old Queens woman. The woman was taken to Elmhurst General Hospital for evaluation. Arrested were Robert A. Miller, 78, and GROUNG ZERO, 45, both of Flushing, NY. They were arrested on charges of unauthorized practice of medicine, sodomy and keeping unlicensed minor farm animals, all of which are felonies. If convicted, they face up to four years in prison. Oddly, the men seemed aroused by the prospect of jail time. The two told police they had previously practiced medicine and lived as life-partners in Ecuador, and had just moved to Flushing in February. They opened their clinic in mid-March in Corona, heavily populated with immigrants and homosexuals from various countries. Police were questioning a woman Friday who called herself Whinney V.S., who worked at the clinic as a dentist. The district attorney's office was investigating and had confiscated the center's patient files and various sexual aids. Copyright 2001 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.