Sorry to have to add this, but i read about two separate scopolamine incidents, one in Cali and one in Pereira, both of which i am planning to visit. I think i will refrain from drinking in Colombia and possibly carry some extra cotton if i feel i'm in a high risk situation.
BTW, i believe that the "El Pais" newspaper is the equivalent to the New York Times or Washington Post in Colombia.
Pereira, Colombia – Band of delinquents using scopolmine to subdue their victims
Posted on March 23, 2011 • Filed under: Colombia, Crime
The authorities are moving in the investigations to ascertain the whereabouts of the members of this band that uses this substance to subdue victims and steal their belongings.
An organized network that uses scopolamine as a method to subdue their victims so that they could dock, would be responsible for several thefts in recent days in Pereira. This was stated by Secretary of Citizen Security and Violence Prevention of the Secretariat of Government, Hector Dario Gallego to ensure that the authorities have targeted several of these subjects, however investigations are continuing ahead to ultimately achieve their prosecution.
Modus Operandi – Thieves will often ask for the time or for directions before spraying the victim with scopolmine
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The authorities are moving in the investigations to ascertain the whereabouts of the members of this band that uses this substance to make their own
An organized network that uses scopolamine as a method to subdue their victims so that they could dock, would be responsible for several thefts in recent days in Pereira. This was stated by Secretary of Citizen Security and Violence Prevention of the Secretariat of Government, Hector Dario Gallego to ensure that the authorities have targeted several of these subjects, however investigations are continuing ahead to ultimately achieve their prosecution.
Official warned that it is important to be alert to any suspicious attitude of someone who comes to ask for some direction or time, for precisely these situations lend themselves to spray the thief to his victim with it take him to alter transiently brain function.
Cali Colombia, three women detained for using scopomine and robbing victims
Posted on March 23, 2011 • Filed under: Colombia, Crime
In the wild, three women who robbed with scopolamine captured in southern Cali, accused of drugging two men and then rob them.
The three women took advantage of his physical attributes to rob their victims were usually university.
The judicial office held that there was no theft in the incident, although the prosecutor appealed the decision.
On Monday police arrested Angie Villada Higuita, Miriam Yurani Darlin Iral and Silvana Giraldo Castaño Grajales, 18, 20 and 24 years respectively, they were leaving a residential neighborhood Limonar. The women came with a laptop, an Xbox 360 and a briefcase.
According to authorities, they would have provided victims with psychoactive substance, called benzodiazepines, which attacks the central nervous system of people.
The prosecution insisted that the three accosted their victims, using their physical attributes to seduce them and give them the substance in drinks or food to steal their belongings. Against the three women there are two processes in Medellín.
The prosecution appealed the decision, which will be resolved in the coming days, a criminal judge of the Circuit, on appeal. The women were released but remain linked to the process.
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also:
Video of Spanish Tourist being murdered in Barranquilla Restaurant