Woman linked to reporter Adan Manzano's death accused of drugging others, draining their accounts
Danette Colbert was charged with fraud after Adan Manzano’s death, and police say they have since heard from others who allege they or a loved one were also victims.
The phone’s screen saver was the first sign that something was wrong.
When Jason Egle plugged the device in and fell asleep at his parents’ New Orleans-area home in the predawn hours of Oct. 16, 2021, it was dead. He hadn’t realized it was someone else’s.
But once he awoke, Egle recalled in an interview, he panicked and quickly came to believe his phone had been intentionally swapped the night before, when he said he may have been drugged and conned by a woman who claimed to be his Uber driver.
As Egle frantically tried to gain access to his accounts, he said, $15,000 vanished from his cryptocurrency account.
Egle, 50, now believes that driver was Danette Colbert, 48, the woman charged with fraud and other crimes this month after a Telemundo reporter covering the Super Bowl was found dead in his hotel in Kenner, west of New Orleans.
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