Airman reports possible drugging
Early on Christmas Eve, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office was called to the Hurlburt Field Security Office regarding a male who had possibly been drugged at a local bar the day before.
The 22-year-old airman told the deputy that he had drunk two glasses of a drink mixed with vodka before going to the bar Sunday night. There, he had two drinks with Southern Comfort, three to four bottles of Corona beer and three mixed drinks called Whiskey Wells, the report noted. He drank all of them between 11 p.m. and midnight, he said. Then he met up with two females who gave him two “fruity shots of alcohol.”
The airman told the deputy he did not remember anything after midnight and woke up the next day feeling “funny.” When asked to elaborate, he said his legs felt shaky and he was nauseous, which is unusual for him.
He and a friend went to the local pharmacy to take an over the counter drug screen, which was negative. He decided to notify law en-forcement because when he joined the military, he was told that if he ever suspected he was drugged, he should report it in case a random drug screen returns positive for narcotics, the report said.
The deputy told him that the “date rape drug” would not show up on a drug screen that early. He then suggested that the amount of alco-hol consumed may have led to the “drugged” feeling.
The airman told the deputy that he’d had 10 beers and a few shots on Saturday night and had not felt drugged when he woke up the next morning.
Witnesses told the deputy that the airman had acted “out of it” beginning around 1 a.m. The designated driver that night, who had to help the airman into his barracks, said that the man had blacked out on other occasions.