Posted on 03/04/2010 8:53:18 PM PST by Chet 99
SPARTA -- Neighbors say Thomas Alan Heugel presented himself as an ordained minister and emergency medical technician who helped people by performing minor procedures, like body piercing or removing skin tags. Authorities say his medical dabbling crossed into the criminal, and accuse him of performing circumcisions without a medical license on adult men.
"He needs to be taken off the streets," said a man who identified himself as Heugel's former boyfriend. The man, who did not want to be identified, said he witnessed Heugel, 56, performing the surgery on men and reported the Sparta man to the police.
Heugel was arraigned Wednesday in Kent County District Court, charged with Health Profession-Unauthorized Practice and Occupational Code-Performance Occupation Without a License. If he's convicted, the felony unauthorized practice charge has a maximum penalty of four years in prison.
Kent County sheriff's investigators say Heugel was performing circumcisions on men, in addition to massages and body piercing.
Heugel allegedly passed himself off as a medical doctor to his patients and performed the procedures at his home on Cherry Street.
"I don't know what the attraction is," sheriff's Lt. Kevin Kelley said of the procedure. "I don't know, and the detective doesn't know."
Kelley said Heugel advertised on Craig's List and a Web site called "adam4adam.com" and then wore what looked like uniforms worn by a medical professional.
Heugel also administered a local anesthetic in at least one case, according to Kelley. None of the known procedures appear to have been botched, police say. Heugel was released on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond. He could not be reached for comment, and no one answered the door at his home.
Neighbor Maria Horn, 53, says she used to be Heugel's friend, but later took the side of his ex-boyfriend when the two split up.
She said he represented himself as an ordained minister, an emergency medical technician and had vehicles modified to look like vintage police cruisers.
After losing his job as a car salesman, Horn said Heugel began performing the circumcisions, including one procedure on a man from Canada.
She said he would also remove skin-tags and pierce ears, in addition to other activities.
Police worry there may be other victims and ask anyone with information to call Detective Ed Kolakowski at 336-5179
-- Press writer Tim DeVaney contributed to this report. E-mail Barton Deiters: bdeiters@grpress.com
sick world of *&*$
Holy crap. I had at least a half dozen questions for the doctor who was performing the circumcision on my son. I really wanted a Rabbi( I am not Jewish)to make sure that G_d’s hand was involved. That is something a guy should not do half-assed!
Very bad. If he had identified himself as a self-trained amateur then I say fine.
"I don't know what the attraction is," sheriff's Lt. Kevin Kelley said of the procedure. "I don't know, and the detective doesn't know."
Neither do I --an infant boy has no choice, or chance to protect himself, but for an adult male to subject himself to penile reduction surgery, that's really f'd up.
...with his teeth.
He worked for tips....
pinking shears ping
Ah, it’s okay; he’s got that ‘respectable doctor’ mustache...
That reminds me of the old joke about the $250 foreskin wallet...
I must have missed that joke!
Why do men need a license to get circumcised? :)
Not a bad job. In big cities one can start at a thousand skins a week and a chance to get ahead.
A man walks into the luggage store, looking for a new wallet.
The man says, “I need a new wallet...what do you have?”
The shopkeeper replies, “I have leather wallets for Ten Dollars, I have ostrich skin wallets for Twenty, and I have this hand-sewn foreskin wallet for Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars.”
“TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS FOR A WALLET?!?,” the man exclaimed, “HOW ON EARTH CAN YOU JUSTIFY CHARGING THAT MUCH!!!”
“Oh, because with this wallet, if you rub it gently for a couple minutes it turns into a suitcase!”
My guess is the boyfriend got jealous.
OMG! That’s baaaaaaaad!!!!!!! LOL.
If this is your alternative idea in thread subjects....
Please Chett give me a Weiner dog attack story or a Pitt eats his owner.
You have a dark sense of humor my Freeper compadre.
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