North Andover Woman Pleads Guilty To Illegal Injections: Patch PM

NORTH ANDOVER, MA — It's Tuesday, April 6. Here's what you should know this afternoon:

• A board member accused Chief Steven Sargent of lying about racism in the department during a Worcester Board of Health meeting.
• A North Andover woman pleaded guilty to doing illegal silicone injections.
• "The Tender Bar," a movie directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, was on location in the Wakefield.

Scroll down for more on those and other stories Patch has been covering in Massachusetts today.

Today's Top Story

A North Andover woman pleaded guilty Friday to doing illegal silicone injections.

Gladys Araceli Ceron, 72, pleaded guilty in federal court to five counts of "delivery for pay of an adulterated or misbranded medical device received in interstate commerce with the intent to defraud or mislead."

Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 5. Ceron was arrested and charged by criminal complaint in May 2019 and indicted in July 2019.

According to prosecutors, from roughly 2004 to 2019 Ceron did illegal injections using "gluteal material" from a source in Florida at her Lawrence business. Lab tests found that the material contained silicone oil, which "the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns can travel through blood vessels and cause a stroke, death or permanent disfigurement," prosecutors said.

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Tuesday's Other Top Stories

Delay in Capitol riot case against town meeting member: A Natick woman charged in connection to the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot had her case pushed back by two months due to the enormity of the investigation, according to federal prosecutors. Suzanne Ianni, an elected Town Meeting member, was arrested by the FBI in January and charged at federal court in Boston. Prosecutors are prioritizing cases against defendants being held in jail; Ianni was released after her arraignment.

Today's feel good story: Teachers and students at Brown Elementary School in Peabody came together to help make it a special day for a classmate who recently completed her cancer treatments. Peabody Public Schools said Harper Reis, who has battled Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia since 2018, completed a final round of treatments on Sunday before returning to school on Monday.

More feel-good news:

• Foxboro Mexican Restaurant Donates 300 Meals To Families In Need

Chief accused of lying about racism in police department: More than a hundred residents and city officials attended a Worcester Board of Health public hearing on racism and police brutality Monday night — an event some members of the board had been trying to hold since the summer. During the meeting a board member accused Chief Steven Sargent of lying about racism in the department.

Star struck: "The Tender Bar," a movie directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, was on location in the Wakefield. Clooney has been bringing filming all across Eastern Massachusetts, from Beverly to Watertown.

Cue the next debate in the coronavirus pandemic: Northeastern University will require all students returning to campus this fall to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus before their first day of class. Northeastern is the first major Massachusetts school to announce a mandatory vaccination policy. That could be a hot topic in coming months as more schools and origanizations consider mandatory vaccinations.

For information on getting a coronavirus vaccine in Massachusetts, visit Patch's information hub.

They Said It

"I am running for a full term as Mayor to ensure a better, stronger city for every Bostonian."

• Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey, who announced her plans to run for a full term.

Tonight's Best Bets

• The Bruins play the Flyers in Philadelphia at 7 p.m.
• The Red Sox try to get a second straight win when they host the Rays at 7:10 p.m.
• The Celtics host the 76ers at 7:30.
• PBS airs the second of three parts of "Hemingway" by Ken Burns at 8 p.m.. Material from the Hemingway collection at the JFK Library, some of it never before publicly released, plays a leading role in the series.