Category Archive for : ‘DATE RAPE DRUG GHB GBL’

Authorities broke up four Internet drug-trafficking rings operating in the United States and Canada, making more than 100 arrests and seizing enough chemicals for 25 million doses of the date rape drug gamma-hydroxybutyrate, or GHB, and similar substances.  Federal, state and local police began the investigation, called Operation Webslinger, two years ago.  It ranged from Internet drug rings in St. Louis; Detroit; San Diego; Mobile, Alabama; Sparta, Tennessee; Buffalo, New York and Quebec City.  Daniel Pelchat of St. Etienne, Quebec, described by Assistant U.S. Attorney James Kennedy in Buffalo as

The Rev. Jeffery Windy, a 31 year old suspended Roman Catholic priest, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to manufacture and distribute the date-rape drug GHB.  He faces up to 20 years in prison and up to $1 million in fines when he is sentenced August 22.  He was allowed to remain under house arrest at his parents’ Peru, Illinois home until then.

(Davenport, Iowa)

Assistant U.S. Attorney James Miskiewicz said Scott Ansaldi, 26, of 28 Garden Place, Merrick, and Rodney Dean Gates, 31, of Norcross, Ga., had illegally sold the date-rape drug GHB and its precursor chemical GBL over an Internet site based in Long Island City called invigorating.com.  Miskiewicz said they sold the chemicals under the name Verve as an aphrodisiac for $99.99 for a 32-ounce bottle between mid-1999 and August 2000.  Attorneys for the two replied at the opening of their trial in First District Court in Central Islip that their clients

Police from Michigan, New Jersey, and South Carolina along with agents from the FDA raided the home of and arrested Jeffrey Suggs, 33 and Kenneth Suggs, 29 for allegedly peddling date-rape drug kits on their web site.  The kits were disguised as computer-cleaning solvents.  More than 100 pounds of drugs used to make gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), a notorious date-rape drug were seized.  Also seized by police were a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol and a pair of shotguns.  The Suggs are awaiting extradition to New Jersey where they face charges of conspiring

Joshua Cole, 18, of Southgate, Daniel Brayman, 18, and Nicholas Holtschlag, 17, both of Brownstown, and Erick Limmer, 25, of Grosse Ile, are facing life in prison in connection with the death of 15 year old Samantha Reid.  They are also accused of spiking the drinks of two 14 year old girls.  All four men pleaded not guilty and were held on $80,000 bail each.  The girls were drugged with GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate) and a similar drug called GBL (gamma butyrolactone).  Both cause unconsciousness and memory loss.  GHB has been