MIAMI – Police have arrested a radiologist who works as a faculty member at the University of Miami School of Medicine on two first-degree felony charges after they say he trafficked a date-rape drug.

Dr. Dairon Garcia, 44, has been identified as an assistant professor of clinical radiology at the UM Miller School of Medicine website Friday afternoon. According to the university, he is a graduate of Duke University School of Medicine and joined the UM faculty in 2022.

According to a Miami Police Department arrest report, the investigation into Garcia began with a package intercepted by customs agents at Miami International Airport on Aug. 29 destined for a duplex on Southwest 22nd Terrace owned by Garcia.

The package, shipped by the French postal service, came from a sender in Paris, authorities said. According to the report, it contained nearly 7 kg of gamma-butyrolactone, or GBL. GBL is identified by US Department of Health and Human Services and the Anti-Drug Administration as a date rape drug.

federal authorities say GBL is “an industrial chemical solvent and precursor to the dangerous gamma-hydroxybutyric acid,” or GHB, and is commonly used to achieve the same effect as GHB. It is known by street names including “liquid ecstasy” and “coma in a bottle”.

A Homeland Security Investigations special agent contacted Miami police after the discovery, the report said.

Police said the package was addressed to a person who lives at the duplex and a company called “Damaga Properties.” They said on Sept. 12, MPD’s SWAT team stood by a woman who took her from her doorstep. Officers searched the home.

The report states that the woman’s daughter arrived and explained that the manager of the duplex property “had called her and informed her that a package for the property owner (Dr. Dairon Manuel Garcia) was to be delivered to her location (and) please received (sic ) the package.”

Authorities said the woman had text messages to prove it.

Police said they also interviewed another resident of the duplex who said he “also received a package from France under his name” on September 7.

“He also stated that he opened it and noticed that the package contained plastic bags with liquid, which were addressed to him and Damaga Properties,” the report said. “(He) contacted (the property manager) and argued with her.”

Police said the property manager said “she does not know why Garcia sent the packages to the location under (the man’s) name, but she will let him know the package has arrived.”

Authorities said Garcia picked up the package the next day.

The report states that on September 25, the HSI agent told MPD detectives that customs agents intercepted another package of approximately 5 kg of GBL addressed to “DG Diagnostics MD LLC” registered to Garcia.

Police said Thursday they went to Garcia’s condo at Epic Tower, located at 200 Biscayne Boulevard Way in downtown Miami, and took him into custody.

His police statement was redacted from the arrest report.

In court Friday, Garcia received a lecture from Miami-Dade Judge Mindy Glazer.

“He should be so embarrassed to be here,” Glazer said. “He’s a doctor, going through all these years of education and committing his life to helping people and getting arrested for it — that’s between you, your lawyer and the criminal justice system. Good luck, sir.”

As of Friday, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $15,000 bond.

Local 10 News has reached out to the Miller School of Medicine for comment on Garcia’s arrest and an update on his employment status.

As of Friday evening, I had not received a response.