Steven Moos, the bogus plastic surgeon jailed in Dubai for impersonating a top Hollywood doctor and performing operations on his kitchen table, has been released from US custody, according to media reports.
Moos, 41, was jailed in Dubai in April but sent back to the US in October, two months before his sentence was due to end.
He appeared at Washington County Circuit Court yesterday for a bail hearing relating to charges of misbranding medication and obtaining drugs by misrepresentation in 2003, according to reports from The Oregonian newspaper in the US.
Prosecutors argued that he should not be granted bail because he may abscond, as he did in 2004, after he was charged with the drug offences, but the judge disagreed and approved his release.
A US$50,000 bail was set and he was ordered to live at his parents’ address.
Moos was arrested in Dubai in February after police caught him impersonating Dr Steven Hopping and performing invasive cosmetic procedures without a licence.
He was convicted of forgery and illegal practice in April and sentenced to two months in prison.
In August he was found guilty of endangering life and causing accidental injury, and sentenced to a further five months.
Moos had been a fugitive since July 2004 after a US grand jury indicted him on four counts relating to medical fraud.