don t put yourself in the family that these families found them else. talk to your kids. that synthetic drugs are dangerous. all drugs are dangerous. this was done for the memorial for eli. his friends signed that that came. the family of elijah sty say they, too, 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 horrible thing to go through for any parent. eli was a good kid. this can happen to any family. i talked to a lot of people
hallucinogenic effects, seizures, psychosis, several reported suicides. and in grand forks, north dakota, the deaths of elijah sty 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 analog 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 to take yet another turn. [announcer] welcome to the re-imagined quickbooks.
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 sty. 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. so adam budge prepared the 2 cimbome into chocolate and he and eli sty consumed some of those chocolates, and eli sty died from them. 1,400 miles away from a suburb of houston, texas. a father and entrepreneur named charles carlton was oblivious to the fact that an unraveling chain of events in grand forks was about to turn his world upside down. i always kind of enjoyed the psychedelic experience. and it started with
how hard you think you have it or well you think you have it under control, the somebody is going to get hurt. or even die. it these chemicals are so dangerous, all it takes is for someone to just have some of it and not know what they have. yet you did think that you thought you were smart enough to handle it and smart enough to think that your customers knew what the hell they were doing. that s right. he is the 15th person so far to be prosecuted under the north dakota federal drug case, now called operation stolen youth. that began with the deaths of christian bjerk and elijah sty. andrew spoffard, who bought the drugs online from carlton, the teen who bought the drugs from budge and shared them with christian bjerk and several low-level dealers are all behind
as police were learning more about the synthetic drugs that killed two teens in grand forks, north dakota, it was someone in that small city who was somewhat of an expert. andr andrew spofr, a local drug dealer who along with marijuana and cocaine, was also selling chemicals he bought on the internet. the synthetic drugs that killed christian bjerk and elijah sty came wrapped, stamped and delivered to his door. he had a fairly good working knowledge of the substances, the potency of the substances, and what dosage unit would be common for typical user amounts. what spofrd didn t know was he was getting ripped off. a crime that would set off a deadly chain of events. one of his customers, adam budge, had broken into spofrd s home and stolen a bag of white powder without knowing exactly