Crime History: Man dies after drinking cocaine-laced soft drink

Published July 27, 2011 4:00am ET



On this day, July 28, 1990, in Miami, Maximo Menendez fell into a coma immediately after drinking a Colombian soft drink spiked with cocaine in a botched drug-smuggling operation.

 

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