Erin Smith, Man Charged with Drugging Woman’s Coffee with Sleeping Pill, Gatehouse News Serv., Sept. 21, 2007, http://www.dailynewstribune.com/news/x277246436/.

Cambridge — A judge ordered a 36-year-old New York man held without bail yesterday on charges he allegedly drugged a woman’s coffee with a sleeping pill and brought her back to his hotel room.

During a business meeting, Seung H. Han put a sleeping pill in a coffee he bought for the woman at a Cambridge Dunkin’ Donuts, according to Han’s defense attorney and prosecutors.

“The next thing she knew, she woke up in a hotel room,” prosecutor Joseph Gentile told the court yesterday.

Gentile told the judge that prosecutors and police are investigating whether Han sexually assaulted the woman in his Waltham hotel room.…

Han’s defense lawyer, Thomas Brant, unsuccessfully argued that Han should be released on personal recognizance because he has never had a run-in with police since he moved to the United States from Korea 14 years ago.…

Han had been taking sleeping pills to help him sleep after the birth of his 4-month-old baby and he meant to put the pill in his own coffee, according to Brant.…

Gentile said the prescription for the sleeping pills were in Han’s grandmother’s name and Han allegedly only admitted to having the sleeping pills in his car after Cambridge Police repeatedly questioned him.…
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