Year and Day For GBL

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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