Tijuana Teen Caught Smuggling Liquid Meth at Border Crossing, When Confronted Takes 4 Sips and Dies. Family Receives $1 Million Settlement.
>The family claims in the lawsuit that agents "coerced and intimidated Cruz into taking a big sip from one of the bottles." A previous Medical Examiner report said Velazquez voluntarily took a sip.
>"It's true that Cruz was doing something that was against the law. And that he did not have to be doing. That's a fact," said Gene Iredale, a family attorney. "It's also true that they did not point their guns at him or physically threaten him but in a social context in which this occurred, they knew exactly what they were doing."
>When agents asked him what was in the bottles, Velasquez claimed they were full of juice. At the secondary inspection area, they told him to take a sip to prove it.
>Velasquez hesitates for a moment and then takes a sip. Then another and another. He drank four sips of the concentrated liquid methamphetamine in total.
>Three years after his death, the family received $1 million settlement, according to court documents.
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>>135452209
Man, some people pay a million dollars just to get a trip like that.
>>135452209
That's shitty police work.
I wouldn't give the family one hot dime, but you have to admit that's poor police work.
>>135452447
>a dead drug mule
>removing profits from a cartel
>bad
The only person at fault here is the judge.