MIAMI -- A man whom police refer to as "The Butcher of South Beach" agreed to a plea deal Wednesday that will keep him from serving as much as 45 years behind bars.

Reinaldo Silvestre was convicted of aggravated battery and practicing medicine without a license for disfiguring several people.

Silvestre pleaded guilty to disfiguring two of his victims in return for a reduced sentence of 7½ years in prison.

Silvestre, who posed as a general surgeon, performed operations on the women who went to see him for breast augmentations, but were grossly disfigured and instead had to see licensed doctors to try and repair the damage.

Champion bodybuilder and former Mr. Mexico Alexander Baez also went to Silvestre's Ocean Health Center in Miami Beach to have his pectoral muscles enhanced. But he woke up to find he had been given female breast implants.

Baez's attorney said veterinary anesthesia was used on his client, who woke up three times during the procedure.

A warrant for Silvestre's arrest was issued in September 1999, but he fled to Belize and was on the run for five years until he was finally caught teaching at a medical school.

As part of the plea deal, Silvestre will never be able to practice medicine again.