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DATE: SUNDAY, July 29, 1990                   TAG: 9007290135
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: MIAMI                                LENGTH: Short

TESTS FIND COCAINE IN COLOMBIA SOFT DRINK

A man who drank from a soft drink bottle containing dissolved cocaine was in a coma Saturday while federal officials discovered two other tainted bottles and checked possible links to Colombian drug smugglers.

Drug traffickers frequently smuggle cocaine by dissolving it in liquids, officials said.

Maximo Rene Menendez, 25, suffered convulsions and cardiac arrest after drinking from a bottle of the Colombian soft drink "Pony Malta de Bavaria" that contained an unknown amount of cocaine, said Jeanne Bush, acting supervisor of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Miami office.

- Associated Press 


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