Year and Day For GBL

[Nagognog2]

Man gets year in prison for conspiring to sell date rape drug
March 29, 2007

NEW HAVEN, Conn. --A Norwalk man was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for conspiring to sell a substance commonly used as a "date rape" drug, federal authorities said Thursday.

Donald Davis Jr., 41, was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New Haven after pleading guilty last September to one count of conspiring to distribute gamma butyrolactone.

In May 2005, officers executed a search and arrest warrant at Davis' residence. Officers seized several firearms, firearm ammunition, narcotics paraphernalia, and significant quantities of GBL stored at the residence, authorities said.

Officers also seized Davis' personal computer. A subsequent search revealed that Davis had used the internet, including a bulletin board called "The Global Connection," to facilitate sales of the "date rape" drug, authorities said.

Davis was ordered to forfeit $80,000

[jim1965]

phew, it seems to SWIM that folks here in UK would be more worried about the guns and stuff than some cleaning solvents !

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Originally Posted by Nagognog2

A Norwalk man was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for conspiring to sell a substance commonly used as a "date rape" drug, federal authorities said Thursday.

That seems like an very light sentence for GBL prosecution compared to the sentences I have seen come down since Webslinger. I bet Daniel Pelchat would plea bargain for 366 days in a heartbeat.

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Norwalk man sentenced to one year in prison for date rape drug

By John Nickerson
Staff Writer

Published March 29 2007, 3:36 PM EDT

NORWALK -- A city man was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to one year and a day in prison for conspiring to distribute a so-called "date rape" drug.

Donald Davis Jr., 41, of 20 Highwood Ave., Norwalk, was indicted in New Haven District Court last May after Norwalk police and federal agents executed a search warrant at his home a year earlier and found 1.25 liters of the drug gamma butyrolactone. The drug, according to the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, can lessen a person's resistance to sexual advances.

The search also turned up oxycodone pills and a computer that showed Davis was trying to use the Internet to distribute GBL. In September, Davis pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute GBL.

On Wednesday, Davis was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Mark Kravitz to one year and a day followed by three years of supervised release. Kravitz also ordered Davis to forfeit $80,000 as a substitute for forfeiture of his Highwood Avenue home.

U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor commended the investigation conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the United States Postal Inspection Service and the Norwalk Police Department.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward Kang.

What a load of shit. 1.25 liters? This person wasn't distributing dick. And they were going to seize his house and instead extorted $80K from him? Jesus Christ was a load of crap!

[snapper]

1.25 L ? That's 4 months worth for the moderate user! What would anyone get distributing that! Sounds like there's a frame around this guy's mugshot. Extortion is a good choice of words. Wonder what got the guy searched in the first place ?
1 year and $80 K is not a light sentence for something which could be bought at a hardware store not so many years ago. Maybe there's more to the story but somehow SWIM doubts it ?

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Here's my belief: Since the USPS and Customs were involved according to the article, I believe they did a controlled delivery to the guy who ordered it online and had it shipped to his house. Armed with the controlled delivery search warrant, they seized his computer and also found Oxycodone in his house.

I do not believe for one minute he was distributing GBL OR oxycodone, but I believe they used consipiracy to distribute both items as leverage to get him to accept a plea bargain. It is extortion, as plain as the nose on my face. Every one of the law enforcement officials involved should be treated as Gestapo thugs for such tactics.

[MrG]

Hey why bother spending money on real police investigations when you can sit your fat cop ass on a chair and tap in a few ping queries to bust someone for a victimless crime.

Smoke and mirrors people, we really got one bad-ass prom queen rapin' monster off the streets - before he even commited the crime!

Time to score me some donuts.

[bcubed]

Doesn't simultaneous posession of guns and drugs increase the severity? Heard about cops using this technique to get someone to snitch on his brother (bad guy--murdered wife). He was just a recreational pot user, but owned a hunting rifle. (From one of my ma's "real crime" shows--doubt I could track down a link).

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Originally Posted by bcubed

Doesn't simultaneous posession of guns and drugs increase the severity?

Generally, the use of a firearm in any crime upgrades the crime automatically to a felony and carries a 5 year minimum sentence. In this case, I noted that they are starting to push the "possession of a firearm" during the commission of an unrelated felony. So they are moving away from the use of a firearm in the commission of a crime and moving toward possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. It's more DA bullshit to increase the initial charges, demonize guns and give the charged party more time to try to plea down. It literally is everything and the kitchen since come at you these days. In the US now, anyone who is an addict of or user of illicit drugs is in the same class as a convicted felon and can not hold professional licenses, etc. It's an all-out war ON Americans.