TAMPA — The women heard about Sharhonda L. Lindsay by word of mouth.
For $12.50 per injection, Lindsay would give them the buttocks boost they desired.
What they didn't count on: pain and suffering.
The women, Andrea Nicole Lee, 30, and Zakiya Thema Teagle, 33, have been hospitalized since Jan. 29 with internal injuries, Hillsborough sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway said.
Lee, he said, is in serious condition. She paid $500 for 40 injections. Teagle, he said, is stable. She paid $250 for 20.
Now sheriff's deputies are looking for Lindsay, 32, of 9827 Blue Palm Way.
According to state records, she also goes by Sharhonda Linesby and has a criminal history that includes a 1999 arrest for forgery, larceny, uttering a forged instrument and unlawful use of a driver's license.
She was sentenced to a year and a half of probation.
Lee and Teagle met Lindsay at one of Lee's homes, 7907 Savanah Palm Place in Tampa, where the victims agreed to pay Lindsay to inject them with Hydrogel and saline solution, Callaway said.
After Lindsay left, Callaway said, the women experienced pain and discomfort, and were taken to Town & Country Hospital.
Lindsay is wanted on two counts of practicing medicine without a license.
Dr. Christian G. Drehsen of the Clinque of Plastic Surgery in Clearwater said he wasn't surprised by the news. He said he has seen about a dozen patients in the last year who have had bad reactions to injections they received from unlicensed practitioners.
Often, what is injected isn't what victims are told it is, and it disperses in the body and can have toxic and even catastrophic results, he said.
"Use the same caution as if you were taking medicine out of a box that has no label on it," Drehsen said. "You would never do that. You cannot base your choice on some anecdotal evidence of immediate result."
Deputies are now searching for other victims.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Sheriff's Office at (813) 247-8200.
Rebecca Catalanello can be reached at rcatalanello@sptimes.com or (813) 226-3383.
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