Reporter found dead had sedative in system also seized from suspect’s home

Adan Manzano and the woman charged with robbing him, Danette Colbert, did not have benzodiazepine prescriptions

A television sports journalist who was found dead in his hotel room near New Orleans while covering Super Bowl LIX had the presence of a sedative in his system - a kind of drug for which he did not have a prescription and was later seized from the home of a woman who is charged with robbing him, an investigator testified recently.

Adan Manzano had a benzodiazepine in his body at the time of his death in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner on 5 February, four days before the Super Bowl, local police detective Jeffrey Fitzmorris said at a criminal court hearing on Tuesday.