Oklahoma
Family reveals new details on ‘haunting’ hospital stay of Oklahoma college students allegedly drugged sipping water at Cancun resort
Family members feared for the lives of the two Oklahoma college students allegedly drugged at a swim-up bar in Mexico as they waited in different countries while one of the girl’s boyfriends was repeatedly denied access to their hospital rooms.
Kaylie Pitzer and Zara Hull were vacationing in Cancun with their friends when they ordered some water at the resort’s pool bar on Aug. 2nd and suddenly slumped over.
A terrifying photo captured the students with their heads lying on the bar while they held hands before they were wheelchaired up to their rooms.
Hull, 20, was later rushed to a private hospital when she began convulsing from the drugs, which US doctors believed to be synthetic fentanyl, according to KWTV.
Her boyfriend, Jake Snider went with her to the ICU where she was “so sedated that she couldn’t open her eyes or speak,” Snider’s mother said of the horrifying ordeal.
“My son was not allowed to stay with her. We had to pay $200 for him to have a room upstairs for the night. It was the 2nd floor of the hospital and the floor was completely VACANT. The room was merely a hospital room,” Stephanie Snider wrote on Facebook.
Snider revealed that her son was too scared to sleep because he feared something would happen to him.
“He couldn’t get in downstairs again to see Zara until the next morning. We sat in 2 different countries- praying all night for safety and health,” she said.
When Jake Snider got down to Hull at 8 a.m. on Aug. 3, Snider said her son found Hull on a ventilator, with a catheter, and under heavy sedation.
Hospital staff allegedly said they were taking Hull to another location for an MRI, which the family speculated was a cover for trafficking.
“He told them to STOP EVERYTHING he’s taking her out. We told him, ‘do NOT let them take her, do NOT let them do anything else to her-we were working on getting them out!’”
“We believe they were planning to take her away to be trafficked or perhaps even to take her organs (which is what we were later told is a common thing that is done),” Snider’s post added. “They most likely would have done something to my son as well, possibly even death.”
The hospital allegedly had already demanded a $10,000 deposit prior to any treatment and then demanded another $25,000 “by Sunday morning to continue treatment or $5,000 to release, Snider previously said on Facebook.
Hull and Snider’s families attempted to find Dallas area hospitals to bring Hull, but were continuously rejected as the private hospital wouldn’t cooperate in sending over her medical records
Thirty hours later, a family friend secured a $28,000 private plane to medevac Hull and Snider to Texas where she hospital as Jake had obtained a partial list of medications Hull was given.
Pitzer and her boyfriend secured a flight to Dallas where they made a “beeline” to the Dallas hospital and the two best friends embraced, she told News 9.
Snider shared that she and the parents of the girls still can’t “close their eyes” over the “haunting”, while Jake “is never going to forget the hell he went through to get Zara and himself out of there alive.”
“For Zara and Kaylie, they have horrible feelings of only what we told them happened to them and yet no memory at all during the ordeal – but are tortured by the fact it happened to them,” Snider concluded.
Hull’s convulsions were her body reacting to the drugs.
She was released from the hospital on Friday but is expecting more medical bills with a GoFundMe set up for them.
Oklahoma City, Oklah. — A dispute over a denied roof claim for a Tulsa family has landed before the Oklahoma Supreme Court in a case that could reshape how insurance companies handle claims across the state and determine whether the state attorney general can intervene.
State Farm argues the case is unconstitutional.
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond says it is not and has joined the case, saying the state needs enforcement power when policyholders cannot pursue claims on their own. “If the insurance commissioner cannot enforce these laws and the attorney general cannot enforce these laws then we have created a chasm in the state of Oklahoma through which foreign corporations can come in and injure Oklahomans with reckless disregard,” Drummond said.
State Farm is accused of improperly denying hail and wind damage claims, affecting thousands of Oklahomans.
Billy Hursh, identified as a Tulsa police officer who sued State Farm after his roof claim was denied, said he believes the company’s conduct went far beyond his family’s case.
Asked about State Farm’s “like a good neighbor” branding, Hursh responded, “Show me. Prove it.”
An attorney representing Drummond is using RICO, a law often used in organized crime cases, to argue the company carried out a coordinated pattern of wrongdoing.
Drummond said his involvement is aimed at representing policyholders who cannot afford legal help. “This is the attorney general representing all of the State Farm policy holders who cannot afford or don’t have access to an attorney. That’s why I’m in,” Drummond said.
During arguments, justices weighed whether the case is a consumer protection issue or a contract dispute that belongs in district court.
Hursh alleges it’s widespread misconduct. “This was a pervasive scheme that wasn’t just done to us it was done to thousands of people across Oklahoma to the tune of millions or maybe even billions of dollars,” Hursh said.
State Farm told FOX 25 it has paid more than $1 billion in Oklahoma wind and hail claims over the past two years and strongly denies any wrongdoing.
Drummond said his investigation could expand beyond State Farm. “There is smoke and I’m following the smoke to find the fire,” he said.
The court’s decision could expand or limit the attorney general’s power to intervene in private lawsuits and could affect how insurers handle claims statewide.
PRYOR, Okla. (KOKH) — A judge has ruled in favor of one of Oklahoma’s largest outdoor cannabis farms after the grow had its license suspended.
On Monday, an administrative law judge for the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority lifted an emergency order that had shut down Cedric Gardens Inc. since late February.
The ruling restores the licensed commercial grower’s ability to operate and lifted the Emergency Order of Summary Suspension.
OMMA issued the emergency order on Feb. 24, 2026, alleging that 348 totes and bags containing 1,923 pounds of flower and 5,742 pounds of shake were “untagged” and “unreconcilable.”
Cedric Gardens challenged that claim and argued its practices complied with OMMA rules and did not pose a public safety risk.
“We proved that there was no public safety threat, and that Cedric Gardens’ business practices were approved by OMMA every year without ever citing or disciplining the business,” said Dana L. Kurtz of Wirth Law Office, who represents Cedric Gardens. “We also established that all of the product was completely reconcilable in Metrc, which OMMA did not even bother to check before suspending the license without any evidence.”
Susan Brosky, a co-owner of Cedric Gardens, said the company was relieved by the judge’s decision.
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“We are elated that the ALJ found that OMMA’s emergency summary suspension should be lifted,” Brosky said. “We have never provided product to the public that posed a public safety risk, all of our product is safe!”
TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) — The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch until 12 a.m. for parts of eastern Oklahoma, including Tulsa.
Counties included in the watch:
- Adair
- Cherokee
- Craig
- Creek
- Delaware
- Mayes
- Nowata
- Osage
- Rogers
- Tulsa
- Wagoner
- Washington
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