Two young college women from Oklahoma reported that somebody potentially drugged them in a hotel in Cancun.
Zara Don Hull, Jake Snider, and other friends traveled to Cancun last Thursday. We had just spent a day at the pool, said Zara Hull, who said her trip turned into a nightmare. She now owes thousands of dollars in medical treatment.
She and her friend Kaylie Pitzer visited the pool bar. We both asked for water. Within two minutes, Jake had turned around, and we both fell over the bar, heads down, at the same time, Zara told CBS News.
I have never felt like this in my life. I was so heavy I could not lift my head or anything. Suddenly, I started having seizures, she added.
Jake Snider took her to a private hospital and stayed by her side as staff reportedly demanded thousands of dollars for treatment.
Kaylie recalled that they were taken back to their rooms in wheelchairs, according to CBS affiliate KWTV. We could not walk, talk, or do anything, said Kaylie. She woke up in bad shape the next day.
It hurt to open my eyes. I was very nauseous and could not move, said Kaylie.
He then found out that Zara was sent to a hospital overnight. They asked for 10 thousand dollars to consider me. They had increased the money they wanted. The minimum was 10 thousand dollars for them, according to Zara.
They had me captive. We are university students. We do not have the money they ask of us.
Meanwhile, she suffered seizures throughout the night. Doctors intubated her. The hospital was not treating her. They were injecting her with a lot of medications to keep her sedated, Stephanie Snider, mother of Jake, wrote on Facebook.
They intubated her and told Jake it was for the MRI. There was no reason to sedate her, much less intubate her. “We knew we had to bring her to the United States.”
But hospital staff demanded even more money to free her, and the air ambulance to bring Zara back to the United States cost $26,000.
Zara remains in the hospital as doctors continue working to determine what could have happened to her.
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