Mexican law enforcement officials maintain the allegations against the Cancun resort are false and that the female Oklahoma State University student was never poisoned or drugged.
State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) Director Raciel Lopez Salazar said investigations found no drugs in either student’s system, Livieria Maya News reported.
“There is no drug trafficking involving fentanyl in Quintana Roo,” Lopez Salazar said in a statement to local media, adding that the incidents had been “exaggerated and classified as simple alcohol use.”
Zara Hull and a group of friends were in Cancun for a four-day trip that was cut short after she and Kaylee Pitse drank several glasses of contaminated water.
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A group of Oklahoma college students were allegedly poisoned while vacationing in Cancun. (Rilee Works via Facebook)
Shocking photos shared by Hal and his family show the moment he and Pitse lost consciousness after drinking water they were given at the poolside bar at the Cancun resort.
Hull’s boyfriend, Jake Snyder, said he took the two girls to a local hospital after they fell ill, where the nightmare continued.
Jake’s mother, Stephanie Snyder, said in a recent social media post that she fears something much worse could be happening.
“We believe they were planning to take her for trafficking or for her organs (we later heard this is a common occurrence), and they probably were planning to do something to my son too, possibly even kill him,” Snyder said.
The allegations prompted local authorities to investigate and discover the girls had been staying at a hotel in Isla Mujeres, not Cancun as reported, and that the girls had tested negative for drugs, Salazar said.
Local authorities classified the incident as a likely “drunken night” and the girls were showing symptoms of alcohol poisoning, Liberia Maya News reported.
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National Guard members patrol a beach in the hotel district of Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. Mexico has deployed a battalion of about 1,500 National Guard troops to Cancun and surrounding beaches after two shootouts in the country’s top tourist destination, the Riviera Maya region, raised security concerns. (Cesar Rodriguez/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The allegations by Hull and Snyder’s families have also attracted the attention of state Tourism Minister Bernardo Cueto, who called it “a very rare case and a very strange situation that is under investigation,” the outlet reported.
In a recent radio interview, Cueto claimed he had contacted the U.S. consulate to get in touch with his family but had received no response.
“We have requested further information from the family through the consulate but have not received a response and the family has shown no interest or willingness to discuss the details of what happened,” Cueto said. “Frankly, this seems very strange to me. It’s a very strange situation because the first thing to do when someone’s health is compromised at a facility is to report the facility where they may or were allegedly poisoned.”
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National Guard troops patrol a beach in the hotel district of Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. Mexico has deployed about 1,500 National Guard battalions to Cancun and surrounding beaches following two shootouts that have raised concerns about security in the Riviera Maya region, the country’s biggest tourist destination. (Cesar Rodriguez/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Cueto said to date no formal complaints have been filed by either family regarding the incident.
“This is all we know about this case, nothing more. Unfortunately, this is a story that has been used to negatively affect the image of the tourist destination,” Cueto explained.
He added: “Incidents such as the one presumed to have occurred at Destination must certainly be investigated, reported and prosecuted and those responsible must be brought to justice, but in this case, as no formal charges have been filed, it is unclear what happened.”
The Caribbean Business Coordinating Council of Quintana Roo has also gotten involved, Riviera Maya News reported. The council said it will continue to monitor developments in the case, but has suggested that local establishments monitor the customers they serve.
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Oklahoma State University students Zara Hull and Jake Snyder were vacationing with friends at the resort of Cancun, Mexico, when things took a deadly turn. (Stephanie Snyder via Facebook)
Eduardo Martinez Gonzalez, president of the Caribbean Business Coordinating Council, said hotels, restaurants and bars have been asked to monitor their patrons to prevent consumers from consuming too many alcoholic beverages and becoming liable.
About 27 hours later, after spending thousands of dollars, Hal’s family managed to negotiate with the U.S. Embassy to fly her to Dallas for continued treatment.
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Snyder wrote that Hal was released from the hospital and returned to his home in Oklahoma with Jake on Sunday.
Snyder wrote that due to legal and privacy concerns, the names of the resorts and hospitals will not be released at this time.
Neither the Hulls nor the Snyders responded to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
