Drug Dealer Suicide Prompts $1M Settlement

This is ridiculous. A narcotics smuggler dies from ingesting his own poison and his family gets a million bucks.

Cruz Velazquez Acevedo began convulsing shortly after he drank the liquid methamphetamine he'd brought with him from Tijuana, Mexico.

The 16-year-old had just crossed the U.S.-Mexico border to San Diego and was going through the San Ysidro Port of Entry. He was carrying two bottles of liquid that he claimed was apple juice. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers told him to drink it to prove he wasn't lying, court records say.

The teen took four sips.

Then, he began sweating profusely. He screamed and clenched his fists.

However, the next few paragraphs are music to my ears.

In a matter of minutes, his temperature soared to 105 degrees, his family's attorney said. His pulse reached an alarming rate of 220 beats per minute — more than twice the normal rate for adults.

"Mi corazón! Mi corazón!" Acevedo screamed, according to court records — "My heart! My heart!"

He was dead about two hours later.

Hoist on his own petard, so to speak. Let every drug mule suffer the same fate.

His family sued the US and got a million. They should have instead taken IQ tests to see which parent passed on the idiot smuggler gene to Cruz. And then the whole lot of them horsewhipped.