Maximo Menendez was drinking a Colombian soft drink in Miami, Florida.
After polishing off half the bottle he remarked, "this is poisoned..it's bad stuff",
then began to go into convulsions.
The following day FDA officials learned his soda had been laced with a lethal dose of liquid cocaine.
After pulling all the bottles of Pony Malta de Bavaria off the shelves,
they discovered another 45 bottles had contained cocaine.
Menendez never regained consciousness and passed away.
Turns out drug smugglers ran into some issues and had planned to reclaim the bottles
and return the cocaine to a sellable crystal form.
The late 1980s and 1990s featured much innovation in the business of drug smuggling:
-In 1999 a Ghanian man sued US Customs
over surgery to remove heroin-filled balloons from his stomach a year earlier
-a Puerto Rican man had rubber wrapped packages of cocaine
implanted under the skin on his thighs
-A shipment of yams had been hollowed out and filled with cocaine
-In 1991 it was discovered that dog carriers were made of cocaine mixed with fiberglass
-same year, a cast iron pita oven from Turkey had 700 kilos of hashish welded inside,
discovered when investigators realized there wasn't anyway to turn the oven on.
After polishing off half the bottle he remarked, "this is poisoned..it's bad stuff",
then began to go into convulsions.
The following day FDA officials learned his soda had been laced with a lethal dose of liquid cocaine.
After pulling all the bottles of Pony Malta de Bavaria off the shelves,
they discovered another 45 bottles had contained cocaine.
Menendez never regained consciousness and passed away.
Turns out drug smugglers ran into some issues and had planned to reclaim the bottles
and return the cocaine to a sellable crystal form.
The late 1980s and 1990s featured much innovation in the business of drug smuggling:
-In 1999 a Ghanian man sued US Customs
over surgery to remove heroin-filled balloons from his stomach a year earlier
-a Puerto Rican man had rubber wrapped packages of cocaine
implanted under the skin on his thighs
-A shipment of yams had been hollowed out and filled with cocaine
-In 1991 it was discovered that dog carriers were made of cocaine mixed with fiberglass
-same year, a cast iron pita oven from Turkey had 700 kilos of hashish welded inside,
discovered when investigators realized there wasn't anyway to turn the oven on.
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