DATE RAPE DRUG FOUND WITH CRIMINAL

PFMLIT General, SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS WHO REOFFEND, SEX OFFENDERS WHO REOFFEND

Matthew Roth, a sex offender, faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to a federal drug charge for buying a 55-gallon drum containing 98,000 doses of a substance used to manufacture the date rape drug GHB.  He will be sentenced August 29.  In 1995 he was convicted of a lewd and lascivious act on a child under 16.  He pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute GHB.

(West Palm Beach, Florida)