Scott County prosecutors charged a Prior Lake medical spa owner with unlawfully practicing medicine for injecting clients with “black market” Botox.

The criminal complaint filed Sept. 19 alleges Nancy Anderberg, owner of RegenLIFE Antiaging Spatique MediSpa, injected clients and performed medical procedures from December 2022 to May 2024. Prosecutors said in the complaint Anderberg also listed a fake medical director on her website.

Anderberg faces up to a year in jail and a $3,000 fine if convicted for the misdemeanor. Neither Anderberg nor her attorney responded to requests for comment.

The investigation stems from a May 2024 complaint with the Minnesota Department of Health, which was referred to the Prior Lake Police Department for investigation. Prosecutors said in the complaint Anderberg injected clients with Botox, a neurotoxin used to reduce facial wrinkles, and Semaglutide, a diabetes and weight loss drug sold under the brand names Ozempic, Rybelsus and Wegovy, despite not having a medical or nursing license.

One witness, who said he was a medical director for RegenLIFE for about a year beginning in January 2023, told a detective Anderberg did not meet the legal or medical qualifications to inject people, according to the criminal complaint. He said he received multiple text messages regarding Anderberg ordering Botox on the “black market” before dropping her as a client and reporting her to the Minnesota Medical Board. Anderberg could not provide identifying lot numbers to verify the drug’s authenticity when he asked.

Multiple other witnesses said Anderberg made the same “black market” claim to them, including her ex-husband, who told a detective Anderberg ordered her lasers and Botox from China. The boxes would arrive in “obscure packaging” and Anderberg learned how to perform injections via YouTube, the witness said, according to the criminal complaint.

Registered nurses who previously worked for Anderberg or were courted by Anderberg for employment said they were concerned Anderberg was putting patients in danger, according to the criminal complaint. One said Anderberg told her “she gets Botox really cheap and makes a ton of money.”

At least one patient said she had an adverse reaction to Anderberg’s injections, according to prosecutors. The patient said she called Juvéderm, a cosmetic filler, who said the lot numbers used to identify drugs did not match their records and was not their product.

Anderberg told a detective in July 2024 she believed she was grandfathered in to perform injections without a nursing license, according to the criminal complaint. She told the detective she received some neurotoxin training in Texas, but did not know if she could use that certification in Minnesota.

Minnesota requires neurotoxin injectors to receive training. Most training programs require a medical background. Texas similarly limits injector certification to medical professionals.

Anderberg told the detective her multiple comments about “black market” Botox were a joke and a “voice text that got messed up,” according to the complaint. She said she stopped injecting people “a long time ago.”

Anderberg’s initial court appearance is scheduled for Nov. 3 in Scott County District Court.

Seth A. Richardson is the interim editor of the Prior Lake News Compass.