A college medical school professor was arrested for possessing a large quantity of a date rape drug.
Dairon Garcia, 44, was an assistant professor of clinical radiology at the University of Miami’s medical school (Miller School of Medicine).
He has been charged with trafficking a date rape drug known as liquid ecstasy or “coma in a bottle.”
He was hit with charges on Friday after police linked him to a package intercepted at Miami International Airport, reportedly containing about 15 pounds of the date rape drug.
The package was said to be from Paris, France, and was addressed to a duplex owned by Dairon. The package was reportedly intercepted by customs officers at the airport on August 29. Miami police were tipped off by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and surveilled the address when the package was delivered on September 12. It was picked up from the doorstep by a woman.
Cops then raided the home, and the woman’s daughter told them that the landlord, Dairon, had called to say a package would be delivered there to him and asked them to receive it.
Meanwhile, another resident of that apartment complex told authorities that another package for Dairon from France had been delivered to their address on September 7, and yet another package was intercepted on September 25, addressed to “DG Diagnostics MD LLC,” reportedly registered to Dairon.
Police finally arrested him on Friday at his condo in downtown Miami. He reportedly pleaded not guilty at his arraignment that day and was ordered to be held on a $15,000 bail, which he later posted that night. He declined to comment as he left.
Reportedly, the drug is colorless and tasteless, allowing it to be mixed into drinks without detection, putting people to sleep until they wake up, hence the nickname “coma in a bottle.”
Dairon reportedly joined the college faculty in 2022, having graduated from Duke University’s medical school. When the judge saw him on Friday, the judge told him he should be embarrassed to be there, saying, “Here’s a medical doctor who went through all those years of education, committed his life to people, and then was arrested for this.”
