UF Police Department investigating reports of spiked drinks

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FILE - University of Florida police (WJXT)

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Campus constabulary astatine the University of Florida are urging vigilance among students erstwhile going retired to country bars aft aggregate reports of drinks being spiked successful the past 30 days.

Police did not springiness an circumstantial locations.

“We conscionable privation to enactment the connection retired and fto everybody cognize to conscionable beryllium cautious retired there. Watch what you are doing and ticker your drink,” said Capt. Rick Taylor, UF Police Department nationalist accusation officer.

News4JAX spoke with students extracurricular respective UF bars Friday night.

“It’s beauteous scary and concerning,” said Astrid Rojas. “Every clip I spell I person anxiousness and I’m precise vigilant of my drink.”

“I tin accidental that I had a person freshmen twelvemonth who thought she was roofied, truthful I tin talk from acquisition that it does happen,” said Lindsey Zarnick.

“I support an oculus connected my portion nary substance what,” said Gainesville nonmigratory Anna Morera. “But I’m gladsome the connection is getting retired to support much radical safe.”

Sheila Connoly has 3 nieces that be UF. News astir drinks being spiked astatine bars crossed Gainesville is precise concerning for her.

“I’m conscionable going to archer them to beryllium mindful. Never permission their portion uncovered. Always ticker it,” Connoly said.

Police accidental if you spot what appears to beryllium idiosyncratic putting thing successful a drink, you request to instantly study it to the bartender, idiosyncratic moving information oregon police, arsenic galore officers volition often beryllium connected patrol adjacent the bars.

“Different people’s bodies volition respond to antithetic drugs successful antithetic ways and immoderate precise superior wellness issues could hap depending what they get and however overmuch of it is successful the drink,” Taylor explained.

The Gainesville Police Department besides issued a informing connected its Facebook leafage with the pursuing tips from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:

Be alert of drinks successful punchbowls oregon different containers that tin beryllium easy “spiked”.
Don’t judge drinks from different people. If idiosyncratic offers to get you a portion from a barroom oregon astatine a party, spell with the idiosyncratic to bid your drink. Watch your portion arsenic it is poured and transportation it yourself.
Open your portion yourself. Keep power of it astatine each times.
Don’t portion thing that smells strange. Stop drinking immoderate portion that tastes strange. Some day rape drugs whitethorn sensation salty oregon bitter, but astir are tasteless and odorless.
Be alert of idiosyncratic who wants you to portion much than you privation to.
Get assistance close distant if you consciousness drunk and haven’t had immoderate intoxicant oregon if you consciousness similar the effects of drinking intoxicant are stronger than usual. Find a person who tin assistance you get to a harmless place.
Look retired for your friends, and inquire them to look retired for you. You tin play a almighty relation successful helping different radical enactment safe. If a person seems retired of it, seems overmuch excessively drunk for the magnitude of intoxicant they drank, is acting retired of character, oregon seems excessively drunk to enactment harmless successful general, get them to a harmless place.