The Telemundo reporter who was found dead in a hotel room in New Orleans, just a few days before he would cover the Super Bowl, Xanax had confirmed officials in his system at the time of his death.
Adan Manzano, 27, a reporter for Telemundo Kansas City, was last seen on security cameras that were lured to a hotel room by the so -called “Bourbon Street Hustler” Danette Colbert who was found with his cell phone and credit card in her house.
On Tuesday, a provisional toxicological report Alprazolam showed in the Mananzo system at the time of his death, KCTV Reports.
Connoisseur, la., Police det. Jeffrey Fitzmorris testified in a Jefferson Parish courtroom, the outlet adds.
Fitzmorris said that the reporter was not prescribed before his death Xanax, Wlox reported.
Although it is unclear how or when the substance entered the Manzano system, officials said that the same medicine was later found in the home of Colbert.
On 11 February, the police of connoisseur reporters said that Colbert had a history of drug people and stealing them, but waited for the report to discover if Manzano was drugged.
Just before his death, the reporter saw a plastic shopping bag wearing while he was walking in the same room in the New Orleans hotel where he would soon be found dead while he stayed there to cover the Super Bowl.
The police arrested jacket, 48, the next day.
Days after his death, civil servants on February 7 press conference Said that Colbert used the Manzano credit card in various stores around New Orleans.
She was arrested and accused of theft in connection with the Manzano case.
David Butler, 52, claimed that he was being drugged and robbed when Colbert and another woman approached him for drinks in the French neighborhood in 2021.
Butler told NBC News that he felt “disoriented” when he finished his cocktail.
“She led me in a kind of black suburb that was literally there,” he told the outlet. “And that is the last thing I remember that night.”
Records from the Nevada court shows that Colbert was charged with Grand Larceny in 2022 and managing a medicine to help with a crime in two separate cases. Both cases were rejected after the victims refused to testify in court.
Colbert was convicted of computer fraud, theft and illegal transfer of monetary funds last October, with Orleans Criminal District Judge Nandi Campbell who was looking for prison time and ordered her instead to pay a refund and stay on trial for five years, according to the court reports .
Despite her criminal history, however, her lawyer argued during her bond hearing before the court that her past should not play a role in this case, Wdsu Reports.
Nevertheless, the judge who supervised the hearing denied the Band of Colbert and described her as “a danger to society,” the outlet added.
