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Bootleg liquor eyed as cause of Dominican Republic tourist deaths
NY Post ^ | June 13, 2019 | Larry Celona and Ebony Bowden

Posted on 06/14/2019 9:15:49 AM PDT by C19fan

Cops are investigating whether at least seven tourists who mysteriously died in the Dominican Republic were poisoned by counterfeit booze, The Post has learned. Officials want to know who supplied the alcoholic beverages the victims drank in the minutes and hours before their deaths over the past year — and if the drinks had any dangerous chemicals in them, law enforcement sources said. The FBI is assisting and will take blood samples from the dead back to its research center in Quantico, Va., a source said.

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TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: dominican; dominician; poisonings; vacations
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1 posted on 06/14/2019 9:15:49 AM PDT by C19fan
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I was very special boot lake liquor as it only kills American’s.

No way. Not buying it.

Murder by poison.


2 posted on 06/14/2019 9:18:09 AM PDT by Eddie01
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What is this 1932? Give me a break


3 posted on 06/14/2019 9:18:36 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Eddie01

bootleg


4 posted on 06/14/2019 9:18:37 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

Agreed. If there was so much toxic liquor, they’d be reporting dozens of locals dead, not every American who hit the bar.


5 posted on 06/14/2019 9:20:00 AM PDT by tbw2
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Did any of these people know Hillary Clinton? /sarc

Really, the investigators need to dig deeper into this.


6 posted on 06/14/2019 9:21:07 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: C19fan

There have been many reports of very serious illness of tourists in Mexico after drinking at resorts.


7 posted on 06/14/2019 9:21:52 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Eddie01

Quality liquor cost pennies in Dominicana. If it is indeed bootleg liquor where are the poisoned? Fatality is rather extreme outcome to drinking bootleg booze.


8 posted on 06/14/2019 9:22:17 AM PDT by NorseViking
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3rd world country. Give them back Haiti for punishment.


9 posted on 06/14/2019 9:22:27 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: C19fan

Jakeleged the hard way.


10 posted on 06/14/2019 9:26:25 AM PDT by carmen2017
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Heeeeeeeeee hawwwwwwwww.

11 posted on 06/14/2019 9:27:09 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Eddie01

That was my impression as well. If it were random caused by bootlegged liquor, some German, Canadian, or Swede would have been nailed.


12 posted on 06/14/2019 9:31:14 AM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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It had to be purposeful poisoning because one lady drink from a 7-Up


13 posted on 06/14/2019 9:32:53 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: NohSpinZone

just the good old hombres
Never meanin no dano


14 posted on 06/14/2019 9:33:41 AM PDT by z3n
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Perhaps it is one of the folks who replaces the bottles in the mini-bar. They empty out the pure booze and replace it with their bootleg stuff. Perhaps, initially, doing it in small amounts to avoid detection. They keep the good stuff for themselves.


15 posted on 06/14/2019 9:36:11 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: C19fan

There is some talk that a local distillery may have sabotaged a competitor in order to increase its market share on the island.


16 posted on 06/14/2019 9:37:45 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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Reminds me of my grandmother’s horror stories about Prohibition. It happened all the time apparently.


17 posted on 06/14/2019 9:41:07 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Eddie01
It was very special bootleg liquor as it only kills American’s. No way. Not buying it.

I'm not buying it either.

18 posted on 06/14/2019 9:41:47 AM PDT by GOPJ (Send Ebola illegals from Congo to Martha's Vineyard - let them kill liberals elites first...)
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Maybe they accidentally made methanol instead of ethanol.


19 posted on 06/14/2019 9:44:13 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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So how do they explain that woman who was very badly beaten up and missing for over eight hours? She was found in some cellar with wastewater on the floor. I don’t think she’s claiming sexual assault.

The hotel dismissed her husband’s concerns and delayed looking for her for about three hours.
Makes you wonder how common hating Americans has become in their culture?


20 posted on 06/14/2019 9:50:37 AM PDT by lee martell
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