likely the last person to be sentenced in the case. i know that it s going to be a long time and i know that i m going to be severely punished, you know, for what i m responsible for. at the federal courthouse, the family of christian bjerk is already headed inside. they ve been at most of the hearings and sentencings to show this video and pictures of their 18-year-old son before and he even after he was found dead on a grand forks sidewalk.e even after he was found dead on a grand forks sidewal even after he was found dead on a grand forks sidewalk. carlton is struggling with what to say to them. he is also struggling, knowing he could spend the next two decades and as long as the rest of his life behind bars. you nervous? make no mistake, it s going to completely change my life. i ll never be able to come back out and go home, to the same place i left, whether it be 10 or 20. and i am extremely nervous and i
2012, police in grand forks, north dakota were facing a new threat on this city s streets. and then you found this other guy in a car. correct. naked? he was naked, yeah. the naked teenager 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 and i didn t know what was going on. i said what s the matter? he said it s christian. i said, what? he said, he s deceased. and he just hung his head. and you know, those moments, you just don t forget them. christian bjerk was a star high school football player. the police officer who came to notify his parents, keith and debbie, had been christian s youth football coach. it never occurred to me that
mother, doesn t understand what there is to negotiate. chinese factories are making a fortune, she says, selling poison. what would you like to say to them? how dare you come into my country and sell drugs to our children? do you think they care? no. they don t care. cnn has learned the synthetic drugs that killed melissa s son, elijah, and christian bjerk were most likely made in china. and so far there appears to be no movement by the u.s. to find and prosecute the manufacturer of this synthetic poison. chris myers, the federal prosecutor in this case, will not discuss the source of the chemicals. and that is not good enough for debbie and keith bjerk. i would like to know the name of the factory where these drugs were manufactured. you don t know the name of the factory? no. i have not been told the name of
we found an amphetamine. how dangerous is this from a chemical compound situation? quite dangerous. there s a whole range of reported effects ranging from rapid or irregular heartbeat, hallucinogenic effects, seizures, psychosis. there have been several reported suicides. and in grand forks, north dakota the deaths of elijah stai and christian bjerk. it turns out the drugs that killed elijah and christian arrived in grand forks by mail. purchased over the internet by a local drug dealer. he was one of the primary sources of supply for analong controlled substances in this area. but finding that dealer would turn out to be only the beginning in unraveling this deadly mystery which was about deadly mystery which was about to take yet another turn. we wan, sketchbooks, and scribbles. let s pin em to the wall. kick em around. kick em around, see what happens. because we re in the how-do-i-get-this-startup- off-the-ground business.
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