Posted on 06/10/2019 11:52:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
'I Believe These People Were Poisoned. I Would've Been Poisoned Had I Not Held It In My Mouth... It Took Effect Really Fast.'
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A Brooklyn woman is claiming she vomited blood after drinking a beverage from her hotel room’s mini bar in the Dominican Republic.
She says it was at the same resort where three American tourists died last month, reports CBS2’s Reena Roy.
Awilda Montes believes her 7UP bottle was actually filled with bleach when she was on vacation.
She initially thought it might’ve been some kind of accident or mix up, but now with the recent news of three people dying at the same resort, this could be something criminal
It was supposed to be a romantic getaway with her boyfriend at the Luxury Bahia Principe Bouganville Resort last October.
Just a few hours into Montes’ vacation she was rushed to the hospital.
“You finally get those days off you look forward to and something like this will happen?” said Montes. “You just don’t expect this.”
She says it all started when she opened a bottle of 7UP from her hotel room’s mini bar. She noticed it didn’t have fizz and assumed it was simply flat, but quickly tasted what she believed was bleach.
“I was cautious when I took a gulp of it,” said Montes. “I immediately felt it burn me, burn my mouth, burn my tongue.
“My mouth was on fire,” she said. “When I spit it out in bathroom sink it was blood. I was just irrigating my mouth.”
The hotel staff brought her to a local clinic where doctors treated her for the pain and vomiting.
Montes says the resort apologized, offering upscale dinner reservations and a couples’ massage.
Luxury Bahia Principe Bouganville Resort (credit: CBS2)
The resort is where three American tourists were found dead last month: 41-year-old Miranda Schaup-Werner collapsed and died after also drinking a beverage from the mini bar, according to her family.
Five days later, a Maryland couple were found unresponsive in their room at a sister hotel in the same resort. They showed no signs of violence, and relatives say they were healthy.
“At the time I didn’t think it was done deliberately,” Montes said about her experience. “Until I saw the news and realized there has to be some kind of correlation with what happened to me and what happened to them.
“I believe these people were poisoned,” she said. “I would’ve been poisoned had I not held it in my mouth and spit it (out) because it took effect really fast.”
In a statement, the resort claims Miranda Schaup-Werner died of a heart attack. A family spokesman says she was treated for a heart issue years ago but was recently in good health.
“We don’t have any answers of what happened down there,” said neighbor Mike Saraceni.
The FBI confirms it is investigating the sudden deaths. Preliminary autopsies indicate all three had the same cause: fluid in the lungs and respiratory failure.
Resort officials tell CBS News the deaths are unrelated. CBS2 has reached out to them for information in Montes’ case and are waiting to hear back.
I’d say you were lucky, but really, you were smart.
That doesn’t surprise me.
Never been there nor ever wanted to go..................
Killing your customers is not a really good business model since it severely restricts repeat business..................
Y’all are overreacting
But feel free
Shucks Wardaddy PCB got everything that crazy foreign place has
That’s true to a point admittedly
I spent 1980-95 mostly outside The USA mostly in Latin America so I’m a bit jaded on world traveling
A few years back Black Jamaicans started killing white tourists at gunpoint.....then tourists stopped coming.
Jamaicans soon realized that the only way to make a buck-—in backward Jamaica....was service jobs at the hotels.
That stopped the killings.
I wouldn’t feel safe there, regardless.
That was before they started trying to kill Americans..................
I don’t think Americans are the only deaths
You do know Falco died there
Coincidence?
Time to return to the days of BYOL(Bring your own liquor).
Quick send the DNC delegation to party and check it out
If not just Americans, then white people.............
“I strongly suspect a serial killer using ricin.”
Imagine the irony had the perp poisoned the fruit loops instead of liquor and mixers.
“You would think by now with all the indications of those people being poisoned that the police would seal off the room take pictures of all the liquids in the room and send all the bottles to a lab for a determination of what each bottle contained. And also send a water and ice cube sample”
That’s a First World response.
““Why do people go on vacation to Third World shit holes?””
Because they can’t afford to get First World resort ass kissing?
The castor bean plant grows wild in Florida. Probably just as common in the DR.
maybe someone can switch the Democrat convention to the DR instead of Minnesota?
Was she watching Nadler on the TV when this happened?
I’ll support that................
Falco was in a car crash.
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