Long Island woman arrested after selling tainted weight loss drugs on TikTok [Video]

A would-be social media influencer from Long Island has been arrested for allegedly peddling tainted and misbranded weight loss drugs on TikTok that left at least one person with a serious infection.

Federal prosecutors accuse 36-year-old Isis Navarro Reyes of using the social media platform to illegally sell bacteria-contaminated prescription medications, including Ozempic, that she had obtained from Central and South America. Reyes — who goes by the name Beraly Navarro — allegedly posted dozens of videos on Tiktok promoting the drugs and told viewers to contact her via an encrypted messaging app to buy them from her.

In one case, the complaint states that a female victim who had viewed Reyes’ videos reached out and purchased 30 injections of the weight-loss drug Mesofrance, which Reyes mailed to her residence in White Plains, New York. The woman then allegedly received an audio message from Reyes instructing her to inject the medication every three days.

However, after …