Doctor Accused of Spiking Drinking Potentially Blackmailed

Last month, Nicaraguan doctor Carlos Saborio Coze was charged with administering noxious substances after a man claimed he was drugged by him. The accusation comes from a Venezuelan nurse who says he was drinking with Coze at Little John’s Restaurant in Belize City and briefly left his drink unattended. He alleges that Coze slipped something into his drink, causing him to wake up at home several days later with no memory of how he got there. There were no signs of sexual assault. Today, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams provided an update on the case, revealing that evidence of blackmail has surfaced.

 

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“ That’s a very complex issue. I know that there is some allegations of blackmail being involved in the whole issue. I’m not sure if a report was made to the police officially, but the attorney for the doctor did reach out to me and has sent me some information to suggest that indeed there was some element of blackmail in that whole situation. And so the police is going to look at it if an official complaint is made and then we see how we go from there.”