Plastic surgeon accused in lawyer’s death was in Miami-Dade before arrest, police say

A Miami plastic surgeon accused of killing a lawyer in the Tampa area was driving around South Florida days before he was arrested. Miami-Dade police are now turning to the public for tips.

Miami-Dade detectives believe Dr. Tomasz Kosowski drove a red Toyota Corolla with a license plate number of EMF K38 in Miami-Dade between March 21 and March 26. The department’s homicide bureau is now assisting Largo police in the investigation.

Kosowski, 44, was arrested on a first-degree murder charge Saturday night. Largo police still haven’t located attorney Steven Cozzi’s body but said their investigation of his disappearance led to Kosowski’s Tarpon Springs door.

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The killing, however, may be tied to previous legal action.

In 2019, Kosowski filed a lawsuit in Pinellas County against Laufer Institute of Plastic Surgery in Dunedin, where he began to work in 2016. The lawsuit blames the person handling the billing for insurance problems that affected Kosowski’s payment, customer service and satisfaction.

“As a direct result of [the biller’s] incompetence, and outright lies, as well as that of the remaining Defendants, Dr. K’s reputation has been greatly harmed, which may likely never be rehabilitated,” the lawsuit says.

One of the attorneys representing the plastic surgery center: Cozzi of Blanchard Law.