Pasha Grishuk, Olympic Ice-Dancing Champion, Drugged In LA

22 Apr 2008 12:13:59

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SANTA ANA, Calif. =97 Former Olympic ice dancer Pasha Grishuk was
drugged with GHB, a common date rape drug, during a business meeting
at a ritzy Orange County hotel, a sheriff's spokesman said Tuesday.

Grishuk, who won Olympic gold medals for Russia in ice dancing in 1994
and 1998, was attending a business meeting at the St. Regis Monarch
Beach on April 12 when she began to feel ill and numb, sheriff's
spokesman Jim Amormino said.

While eating dinner, she spotted a partially dissolved pill in the
bottom of her drink. Investigators later found another dissolved pill
in the bottom of a drink she ordered in the hotel's lounge.

Amormino says toxicology tests that came back Tuesday were positive
for GHB, but it wasn't immediately clear how the pills got in
Grishuk's drinks or who put them there.

"How somebody was able to do that, I honestly don't know, but it
appears that somebody, for whatever reason, attempted to drug her," he
said.

GHB, or gamma hydroxy butyrate, can cause breathing problems, loss of
consciousness, seizures, drowsiness, coma and death.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration labels GHB a "predatory drug"
that can be mixed with alcohol to reduce resistance from a victim
before a sexual assault. It is also popular with teenagers at raves
and is sometimes used by bodybuilders for its anabolic effects, the
DEA said.

The 36-year-old Grishuk is a Ukrainian native who now lives in Los
Angeles.

An e-mail to Grishuk was not immediately returned. A spokeswoman at
the St. Regis did not immediately return a call for comment.

01 May 2008 22:24:56

Re: Pasha Grishuk, Olympic Ice-Dancing Champion, Drugged In LA

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:13:59 -0700 (PDT),
"houself12@gmail.com" <houself12@gmail.com > wrote:

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>SANTA ANA, Calif. =97 Former Olympic ice dancer Pasha Grishuk was
>drugged with GHB, a common date rape drug, during a business meeting
>at a ritzy Orange County hotel, a sheriff's spokesman said Tuesday.
>
>Grishuk, who won Olympic gold medals for Russia in ice dancing in 1994
>and 1998, was attending a business meeting at the St. Regis Monarch
>Beach on April 12 when she began to feel ill and numb, sheriff's
>spokesman Jim Amormino said.
>
>While eating dinner, she spotted a partially dissolved pill in the
>bottom of her drink. Investigators later found another dissolved pill
>in the bottom of a drink she ordered in the hotel's lounge.
>
>Amormino says toxicology tests that came back Tuesday were positive
>for GHB, but it wasn't immediately clear how the pills got in
>Grishuk's drinks or who put them there.
>
>"How somebody was able to do that, I honestly don't know, but it
>appears that somebody, for whatever reason, attempted to drug her," he
>said.
>
>GHB, or gamma hydroxy butyrate, can cause breathing problems, loss of
>consciousness, seizures, drowsiness, coma and death.
>
>The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration labels GHB a "predatory drug"
>that can be mixed with alcohol to reduce resistance from a victim
>before a sexual assault. It is also popular with teenagers at raves
>and is sometimes used by bodybuilders for its anabolic effects, the
>DEA said.
>
>The 36-year-old Grishuk is a Ukrainian native who now lives in Los
>Angeles.
>
>An e-mail to Grishuk was not immediately returned. A spokeswoman at
>the St. Regis did not immediately return a call for comment.

The report turned into a 'Person of interest' case.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Sports/2008/04/24/person_of_interest_in_grishuk_case/4306/