Judge’s brutal words to University of Miami medical school professor arrested for trafficking date rape drug ‘coma in a bottle’

A judge has sentenced a University of Miami medical professor arrested on charges that he trafficked a date-rape drug.

“He should be so ashamed to be here,” Miami-Dade Judge Mindy Glazer said as she lectured 44-year-old Dr. Dairon Garcia, who is being held on $15,000 bail after being charged with drug-related charges following his arrest at his jail. apartment on Friday.

“He’s a doctor, has all these years of training and dedicated his life to helping people and getting arrested for it – that’s between you, your lawyer and the criminal justice system. Good luck, sir,” Judge Glazer said.

Authorities say they may link Garcia to a package intercepted at Miami International Airport that contained approximately 15 pounds of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, or GHB, also known as the date rape drug, “liquid ecstasy” or “coma in a bottle’. .’

The drug is completely colorless, meaning that people are often completely unaware that they have taken it until they are put to sleep, hence the disturbing nicknames.

Garcia, a graduate of Duke University, has worked as an assistant professor of clinical radiology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine since 2022.

Police arrested him Friday at his downtown Miami apartment after discovering several packages addressed to him.

Researchers had followed a trail package from Paris, France, which was addressed to a Garcia duplex company.

Customs officials intercepted the package at the airport on August 29 and then tipped off Miami police, who lurked at the address on September 12 when it was scheduled to be delivered.

A woman collected the package, after which the address was raided.

She explained to police that Garcia was her landlord and that she should expect the package and be home to “receive” it.

Authorities said the woman had text messages to prove it.

The resident said they “opened it and saw there were plastic bags of liquid inside the package.”

Miami police were tipped off by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and secured the address when the package was delivered on September 12 and picked up at the door by a woman.

While officers were on scene, they discovered that two other packages for Garcia from France had also arrived at the complex on both September 7 and September 25, but to two different apartments in the building.