University of Miami Professor charged with importing and trafficking date rape drug

Dairon Manuel Garcia is a radiologist, a doctor, and an assistant professor at the University of Miami who was arrested after getting busted importing the date rape drug gamma-butyrolactone (GBL).  CBS News reports that law enforcement officials in Florida arrested Garcia on Friday after the doctor imported several packages of GBL from Paris, France, and had them delivered to a residence he owns but rents out in Miami. 

Authorities began looking into Garcia when they intercepted the GBL packages that they deemed “suspicious” when they arrived at Miami International Airport – and traced those packages back to the doctor.  Those packages contained approximately 15 pounds of GBL imported from France.

On Friday, Dr. Garcia was charged with trafficking the date rape drug GBL, also known as “liquid ecstasy” and “coma in a bottle.”

“He should be so embarrassed being here,” Miami-Dade Judge Mindy Glazer said of Garcia at his arraignment. “He’s a medical doctor, going through all those years of education and committing his life to helping people and to get arrested for this.

“That’s between you, your lawyer and the criminal justice system. Good luck to you, sir.”  ~ New York Post

Garcia, a graduate of the Medical School of Duke University, has been teaching at the University of Miami’s UM Miller School of Medicine since 2022.  Following his arrest Friday in Miami, he pleaded not guilty at his initial court hearing and was later released on $15,000 bail.

WPLG shared the federal authorities describing GBL as “an industrial chemical solvent and a precursor chemical to the dangerous gamma-hydroxybutyric acid,” or GHB, and commonly used to achieve the same effect as GHB. It’s known by street names including “liquid ecstasy” and “coma in a bottle.”

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(Cover photo:  Dr. Dairon Manuel Garcia, mugshot, Image credit: Miami-Dade Corrections)

Posted by Richard Webster, Ace News Today
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