Drugged at 1up barcade on Colfax
I was drugged at 1up last night.
I went out with my girlfriend (who does not drink at all or do drugs) and a guy friend. Over the course of 3 hours I had a total 3.5 beers and nothing else. After ordering my 4th beer I put it on a table behind me while I watched my partner play pinball.
Halfway through the 4th beer, my memory of the night goes black. My partner told me that within 30 minutes I went from being totally fine to staggering and slurring.
I have no memory of the rest of the night but my partner and friend told me that after pinball we went outside. We were approached by a heavyset short (maybe 5’8) Latino guy in his 30s or 40s who offered me “cocaine”. My friend said the guy pretended to do some himself, but that he didn’t actually do it. He knocked it off the key and fake snorted it.
The Latino guy was with two white guys (maybe in their 40s.) Both were close to 6ft tall. The white guys looked similar like they could be brothers or twins, they said they were dressed “kind of dressy” —not what you’d wear to a club. They were standoffish and didn’t speak to us, despite being seated near us and gaming out with the Latino guy talking to us.
My girlfriend and my friend said the three of them felt “off”. They said they seemed unlikely to friends and that it seemed weird the three of them were together. My friend said the white guys “seemed like sociopaths”.
My friend said the Latino guy said he was from Chicago and had a slight Chicago accent, and that he was actively trying to give me drugs off the end of a key. My friend grabbed the key and said “she doesn’t do coke” Instantly after that, the three of them got up and left together.
We didn’t see them anywhere, presumably they left the premises entirely.
Additional to this, my gf said that she saw a van with a man in it parked outside in the street. She said the man in the van was watching all this.
After this encounter my gf decided it was time for all of us to leave. We got an Uber and went home, where she said I started to feel very sick and nauseous. She said we were up for 3 more hours, which I remember nothing of. This is nothing like how 3.5 beers would normally affect me.
Today I went to the hospital and asked to be tested for date rape drugs in my system, and I was told that unless I went to Denver health, that most hospitals could only offer a standard 10 panel drug test. I took that and tested negative for everything but this test does not detect the most common date rape drugs-Rohypnol, GHB, Ketamine.
I called the police and filed a report. I was even able to tell them exactly where we were and within a 10 minute window of when the drugging likely happened.
I am frustrated and in disbelief that it is so difficult to access drug testing for Rohypnol, ketamine, and GHB—the most common date rape drugs other than crushed common benzos). I was told that if I had been sexually assaulted then the testing would be offered. This is crazy to me because obviously anyone drugging people like that is intending something very bad, like robbery, assault, trafficking etc… and the drugging itself should be taken seriously imo.
Someone informed me that I can go to Labcorp and self-pay for the labs. I intend to do that, but they aren’t open until tomorrow. By then the chances of detecting many of these drugs becomes very low. I’m lucky I had people looking out for me. I’m worried for those who might not be so lucky.