A Florida woman is behind bars and facing an after she allegedly drugged a man shed met on a dating app.
Samantha Adams, 39, and the victim, 69, had been in a relationship “for the purposes ofâ¦paid sex” for two to three months after meeting online, said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.
Adams had told the victim her name was “Nala.”
“Black widow” is what Polk County deputies call her, Judd said.
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“She tried to kill him,” Judd said in a video posted to social media. “She tried to overdose him. She tried to extort him.”
On Aug. 17, Adams and the victim were in an argument about a vehicle hed bought for her, court records show. When he told her he wanted it back because he couldnt afford it, she said they could discuss it at his house, according to records.
When at the victims home, Adams gave him a shot glass filled with “suspected whiskey,” court records show.
“She slipped him benzodiazepine,” Judd said.
After he drank the beverage, the two “engaged in physical affection,” court records show. When the victim “attempted to touch the defendant in a sexual manner,” Adams demanded $1,000, according to court records. When he told her he didn’t have the money, she got dressed and left the home.
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Not long after, the victim was asked to pick up his granddaughter from a Wawa gas station near a movie theater where hed dropped her off with her boyfriend earlier that day.
On his way to the Wawa, he began feeling ill, court records show.
Later, he could only recall being pulled from the driver’s seat by his granddaughter and being moved to the back seat of the vehicle, Adams arrest warrant shows.
The granddaughter drove her unconscious grandfather home. When he was still unconscious later in the evening, she called 911.
At the hospital, the victim was given Narcan for a suspected opioid overdose, records show.
A urine analysis and other testing showed he had benzodiazepine poisoning, metabolic encephalopathy, dehydration, and acute kidney injury, investigators reported.
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Benzodiazepines are depressants that cause sedation and hypnosis, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Overdosing on the drug can cause extreme drowsiness, confusion, impaired coordination, decreased reflexes, respiratory depression, coma and possible death.
The victim told investigators that he doesnt drink often.
The last time he drank and consumed “exponentially higher” amounts of alcohol was on the Fourth of July, when he had three Long Island Teas and three beers, he said.
And he was never drowsy and disoriented like he was when he drank with Adams, he told investigators. It wasnt the first time the victim had become drowsy after meeting with Adams, he said.
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Earlier in August, the victim fell asleep behind the wh
