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The photo that flashed onto the courtroom screen showed a young man dead on his bedroom floor, bare feet poking from the cuffs of his rolled-up jeans. Lurking on a trash can at the edge of the picture was what prosecutors said delivered this death: an ordinary, U.S. Postal Service envelope.
It had arrived with 10 round, blue pills inside, the markings of pharmaceutical-grade oxycodone stamped onto the surface. The young man took out two, crushed and snorted them. But the pills were poison, prosecutors said: counterfeits containing fatal grains of fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid that has written a deadly new chapter in the American opioid epidemic.
The envelope was postmarked from the suburbs of Salt Lake City.
That's where a clean-cut, 29-year-old college dropout and Eagle Scout named Aaron Shamo made himself a millionaire by building a fentanyl trafficking empire with not much more than his computer and the help of a few friends.
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malaise
(268,967 posts)Seriously - this is frightening!
Get thee to the greatest page
Karadeniz
(22,513 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)put on the skin from there. The country has some brilliant innovators, they are leading on "green" packaging products. But for every three legitimate business people there, one will cut a drink with a cheaper substance and pocket the difference, then the drink harms people and the government works in panic to figure out what happened and how it happened.
Imagine if our country's Wild West got placed into today's world.
Shaddox
(384 posts)Do you think that China has any interest in stopping the flow of drugs made my government labs or illegal labs to the US? Think how destabilizing this is for the US. Bingo!
keithbvadu2
(36,787 posts)Maybe Donald could put a tariff on fentanyl?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)operations like the one he had are popping up all over the country. They take a deadly substance and purposely mislabel it.