The former home of New World Medical & Mystic Cosmetic Surgery Center, 2020 SW First St., Miami, which is still owned by an LLC run by Maria Gonzalez and Yaritzza Gonzalez, both Mystic officers, and Jadhiel Reyes.
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A Miami plastic surgery center whose owner is accused of helping with at least one liposuction by one of the unlicensed doctors who performed surgeries there has surrendered its office surgery license.
Before the final order on its license relinquishment posted last week, Little Havana’s New World Medical & Mystic Cosmetic Surgery Center, 2020 SW First St., had been on suspension since May. An emergency suspension order from Florida Surgeon General Joseph Lapado said Mystic owner Maria Gonzalez helped with an Oct. 12 liposuction by Wilson Muñoz Suarez.
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Muñoz doesn’t hold a medical license in the United States. Nor does fellow Doral resident Manuel Lazzaro. Both were arrested in April after what the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office and prosecutors say were unlicensed surgeries at Mystic that left patients injured. An arrest report says one woman suffered “permanent disfigurement.”
Muñoz, 60, now faces three counts of practicing medicine without a license and one count of resisting arrest without violence. Lazzaro, 58, has been charged with two counts of unlicensed practice of a healthcare profession with injury and one count of practicing medicine without a license. Each will enter a plea when they formally face the charges in court in December.
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The emergency suspension order also said Gonzalez tried to reopen New World/Mystic in a new location on Coral Way not yet inspected and approved by the Florida Department of Health.
Gonzalez didn’t respond to a message from the Miami Herald seeking comment.
After the emergency suspension order, the Florida Department of Health filed an administrative complaint in June against Mystic Cosmetic Center Inc. That started the disciplinary process that, with the license already suspended, could have led to full license revocation.
A condition of the voluntary relinquishment of license is that Mystic Cosmetic Center Inc., the licensed entity, agrees to never apply for an office surgery registration license again.
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The relinquishment paperwork doesn’t name individuals, only the “Respondent” — Mystic Cosmetic Center Inc. The building at 2020 SW First St. remains under renovation.
County records say it’s still owned by “2020 SW 1st LLC,” for which the officers are Jadhiel Reyes, Yaritzza Gonzalez and Maria Gonzalez.
This story was originally published November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM.
David J. Neal
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