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we need an ambulance. we have a kid here who s not breathing. okay, where s the house? it s east grand forks. i don t think he s breathing at all. no, he s dead. we need somebody now. i know. can you guys start cpr with him? it was three days before eli s birthday. he would be 18? yeah. he wanted to go to grand forks to see his cousin and spend time there with justin. melissa katz s son, elijah stai, was in grand forks to celebrate an upcoming birthday. he was with his foster brother, justin rippentropp. what were you planning that weekend? not a whole lot. just hang out basically. they would find themselves hanging out and sleeping over at the home of a cousin s boyfriend. neither had known 18-year-old adam budge, but he seemed nice. budge said he had a special treat, a bag of chocolate that he had cooked with a white powder he said was extract from psychedelic mushrooms. ....
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 ....
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 stai. andrew spofford, who bought the drugs online from charles carlton. adam budge, who got the drugs from spofford. the teen who bought the drugs from budge and shared them with christian bjerk, and several low-level dealers are all behind bars. fans, let s hear it one more time for all our 2011 senior athletes and trainers. i know exactly what he was saying to me. he was actually telling me he was hungry and he wanted to eat right after the game. he was going to go out with some friends and get a sandwich. and at the hearings and sentencings debbie bjerk has ....
Know as possible that no matter how hard you re you try to be safe and no matter how hard you think you or how well you think you have it under control somebody s going to get hurt or even die. these chemicals are so dangerous that 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 stai. andrew spofford, who bought the drugs online from charles carlton. adam budge, who got the drugs from spofford. ....
As police were learning more about the synthetic drugs that killed two teens in grand forks, north dakota, there was someone in that small city who was somewhat of an expert. andrew spofford, 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 stein 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 ....