Danger. That to me is scary. The stuff is not safe, just because you can order on the internet. Most people still dont know what they are. Theyll kill your kids. Tonight, the new drug threat, a deadly high. What is your emergency . Theres a kid lay on the side hawk. He looks like hes been beat up. 911. Yeah, theres a guy laying face down. He looks like hes got no shoes on. When the officers arrived, they found mr. Greer lying face down on the sidewalk. They found the other victim. It was reported that he was sit on the grass, yelling at a parked car, acting incoherently. Police in grand forks, north dakota, were facing a new threat on the city streets. And then you find this other guy in a park. Correct. Naked . He was naked, yeah. The naked teenage and the young man yelling at the car would live. But police already knew the young man lying face down on the sidewalk was dead. And in the small city of grand forks, they also knew who he was. He teared up. He i didnt know what was going o
FARGO Wesley Sweeney, Manvel, N.D., pleaded guilty Friday in federal court here to a drug conspiracy charge, admitting he gave illegal synthetic drugs to a Grand Forks man in June, causing his death.
activists, getting out the word on the dangers of synthetic drugs. thanks to their efforts north dakota has put in new legislation banning a number of synthetics, and federally the drug that killed christian and elijah is now on the list of banned substances. the stuff is not safe just because you can order it on the internet. don t be fooled by that. don t put yourself and your family in the position that these families in grand forks found themselves. talk to your kids, that synthetic drugs are dangerous. all drugs are dangerous. this was done for the memorial for eli. his friend signed that. that came. the family of elijah stai say they do hope their son s death can be a warning to others about the dangers of synthetic designer drugs. our lives were turned upside down. our lives will never be the same. i don t know if you can really put something like that into words, what your life is like after you lose a kid. it s a horrific thing to ever have to go through for any parent
christian bjerk and elijah stai came wrapped, stamped, and delivered right to spofford s door. he had a fairly good working knowledge of the substances, the potency of the substances, and what dosage units would be common for typical user amounts. what spofford didn t know was he was getting ripped off in a crime that would set off a deadly chain of events. one of his customers, adam budge, had broken into spofford s home and stolen a bag of white powder. without knowing exactly what was inside that bag or just how potent it was. budge melted the powder into chocolate that he gave to his new friends, including elijah stai. budge also sold some of the same drug to a young man who would share it with christian bjerk. adam budge early on in the investigation was the common link between these two overdose victims. adam budge prepared the 2ci-nbome in some chocolates and