After ecstacy kills teen, 15, alleged dealer busted

[Euphoric]

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/brea...ry/305176.html

Mon Nov 12



An electronics store security guard faces a murder charge after selling ecstasy to a 15-year-old girl who died from the drug, Miami Beach police said Monday.


Christopher Rodriguez, 22, of Hialeah, was booked into Miami-Dade County Jail on Sunday charged with first-degree murder.


''His punishment pales in comparison with the lifelong agony that her family will endure,'' Miami Beach Sgt. Robert Hernandez, a spokesman, said on Monday.


According to police, Rodriguez met with the teen and three or four of her friends at the U-Gas station, 7950 W. 28th Ave., Hialeah, on Nov. 2.
He sold them one tablet each for $14. Then, he got back into his 2004 Chevy Impala and drove away.


As the friends drove to Miami Beach, the girl swallowed a pill with orange juice.


Her friends later told police she ''started to complain within 15-20 minutes after taking the tablet that she did not feel well. The victim stated `Oh my God, I feel sick, I want to kill this roll,'' the arrest report said.


The girl began ''to scratch herself on both of her legs and started to act very irrational,'' an arrest report said.


Two friends drove to Walgreens and one friend poured strawberry milk down her throat. She threw it up. The girl grew pale. Her lips turned blue.
They drove her to Mount Sinai Medical Center. Her heart stopped, one friend told police.


Emergency room doctors revived the girl. But she was braindead, the police report said.


Her two friends claimed they didn't know her but had found her on the beach. ''Both witnesses then fled from the hospital,'' the report said.


Five days later, doctors removed her from life support and she died. Her blood and urine tested positive for ecstasy.


One of her friends began cooperating and gave detectives Rodriguez' cell phone number.


Detectives say on Saturday he confessed, claiming he had just started selling the tablets to ``for a few weeks to make some extra money.''


Rodriguez works at Circuit City as a security guard, police said.

Wonder if the pill was tainted? Sounds like she'd rolled before so an allergic reaction to MDMA is doubtful... but then why did the others survive? Pills filled with something else her body couldn't handle? What was the cause of death exactly?

[RaverHippie]

reaction with some other drug imo, possibly antidepressants or something of that nature? but it also sounds like an overload of stimulants...

[trptamene]

Maybe he shouldn't be selling ecstasy to a 15 year old girl...but he never forced her to take it.

The fact that he is facing murder chargers is horrible.

They should start charging anyone that sells a weapon for any crime that is commited with that weapon.

Also, doesn't murder imply it was intentional? Wouldn't manslaughter be more appropriate?

[Samadhi]

Swim agrees with tryp... The fact that he was prosecuted for murder stands a little shaky...

murder being defined (1st degree)-

first-degree murder is defined as an unlawful killing that is both willful and premeditated, meaning that it was committed after planning or "lying in wait" for the victim.

I don't think this guy is the captain crunch of drug dealers;luring children into his presence and force feeding them chocolate hallucinogens (or in this case an unknown ecstasy pill)

involentary man slaughter fits much better in this case and holds a sentence of 15 or less prison years...



''His punishment pales in comparison with the lifelong agony that her family will endure,'' Miami Beach Sgt. Robert Hernandez, a spokesman, said on Monday.

this above gets swim angry... he may have shown his stupidity in selling the untested pills to a fifteen year old girl but she showed her drug use in this case... her parents may have to struggle with the fact that although this bloke sold her the tab their daughters want to "party" or "roll" caused her ultimate demise... It is easy to see ones child as innocent and see the world to have made her do these things but plain and simple; nobody forced it into her mouth. Swim feels for the families loss but they should see the two sides to this case.

sorry for the rant

[Bajeda]

Her blood and urine tested positive for ecstasy.

Hmmm.... Could someone clarify what exactly this means? I'm reading 'jack-shit' off the information meter.



BajEdit: It may mean traces of methamphetamine and amphetamine found which suggest consumption of MDMA or a related compound, or a mixture therein, but I thought with an autopsy there was a more accurate way of knowing than with UA. Whatever the case, more specificity would be better, as 'ecstasy' could be any number of things.