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 Largest LSD Lab Seizure in DEA History 
#1719020 - 07/15/03 07:19 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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http://www.dea.gov/pubs/states/newsrel/sanfran033103.html
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 31, 2003
PICKARD AND APPERSON CONVICTED OF LSD CHARGES
LARGEST LSD LAB SEIZURE IN DEA HISTORY
Special Agent in Charge Stephen Delgado, Drug Enforcement Administration, San Francisco Field Division, and United States Attorney Eric Melgren, District of Kansas, announced today that Bay Area residents William Leonard Pickard, 57, Mill Valley, California, and Clyde Apperson, 47, Sunnyvale, California, were found guilty today, following an eleven week jury trail of one count of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute more than 10 grams of LSD from August 1999 through November 2000 and one count of possession with the intent to distribute more than 10 grams of LSD on November 6, 2000.
Melgren stated that according to court testimony, this was the largest LSD lab seizure ever made by the Drug Enforcement Administration . DEA agents seized approximately 41.3 kilograms (90.86 pounds) of LSD, approximately 23.6 kilograms (51.92 pounds) of iso-LSD, a by-product from the manufacture of LSD.
Further trial evidence established that in the history of DEA there have only been four seizures of complete LSD labs and three of these seizures involved Packard and Apperson including a lab in Mountain View, California in 1998, a lab in Oregon in 1996, and this lab in Wamego, Kansas
According to court testimony, on October 31, 2000, DEA agents conducted a search of a silo site near Wamego, Kansas, and found a LSD lab packed in storage boxes. On November 6, 2000, Pickard and Apperson were moving the illegal lab when they were stopped by the Kansas Highway Patrol. Apperson was arrested driving the rental truck containing the lab. Pickard, who was driving a Buick LeSabre, fled on foot and was arrested the next day at a farm outside Wamego. Fourteen canisters of a chemical required to produce LSD valued at over $1,000,000 were found at the missile silo. According to court testimony, Pickard and Apperson previously manufactured LSD in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where every five weeks the lab produced about 2.2 pounds of LSD, approximately 10 million doses that cost less than one cent a dose to produce and would sell for as much as $10 a dose. According to court testimony, the LSD was shipped to California and later to Europe for distribution.
Pickard and Apperson each face a minimum of ten years and a maximum of life in federal prison without parole. Sentencing is scheduled for August 8, 2003 at 9:00 a. m. in Kansas. Pickard remains in federal custody and Apperson was remanded to federal custody today.
The DEA San Francisco office initiated this case and provided crucial assistance throughout the trial. SAC Delgado stated: "The investigators in this case displayed extraordinary tenacity and dedicated long hours away from home and their families. LSD, like all illegal drugs, are a threat to our children and our communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The San Francisco office will continue its relentless efforts to protect the Nation from the dangers posed by drug traffickers."
United States Attorney Eric Melgren stated: "This is just one example of the fine work of the Drug Enforcement Administration, in cooperation with other law enforcement agencies, in the continuing fight against illegal drugs. We are pleased to have led the effort to protect our citizens against the dangers of LSD by this significant disruption in the nationwide supply of this drug.
SAC Delgado wishes to publicly thank United States Attorney Eric Melgren for his leadership in the prosecution of this case and all the local law enforcement agencies that helped us bring this case to today's conclusion.
For additional information, please contact Special Agent Richard Meyer at the DEA San Francisco Division at 415-436-7994.
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Re: Largest LSD Lab Seizure in DEA History [Re: Lana]
#1719312 - 07/15/03 10:21 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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This has gotta be a 5th or 6th posting....
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Re: Largest LSD Lab Seizure in DEA History [Re: HarveyWalbanger]
#1719374 - 07/15/03 10:43 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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This has gotta be a 5th or 6th posting
oh.?
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Re: Largest LSD Lab Seizure in DEA History [Re: motaman]
#1719597 - 07/16/03 12:18 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Heres one
theres a bunch throughout this whole thread about the pickard bust...
I distinctly remember there being more than just that, but whatever, so its only been posted once :P
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Re: Largest LSD Lab Seizure in DEA History [Re: motaman]
#1719766 - 07/16/03 01:01 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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i read about this a long time ago in rolling stone.. that issue had angelina jolie on the cover. she's not bad lookin.
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Re: Largest LSD Lab Seizure in DEA History [Re: motaman]
#1720348 - 07/16/03 04:15 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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90 lbs of pure crystal... man fuckin god! why cant i do that... fuck i shouldve been smart 
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 Re: Largest LSD Lab Seizure in DEA History [Re: Lana]
#1720858 - 07/16/03 09:37 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thank you for sharing this Lana,
Incredible story..
Comical amounts of lsd..
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Re: Largest LSD Lab Seizure in DEA History [Re: Lana]
#1721105 - 07/16/03 11:44 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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shows the price of greed.
LSD has karmic attachments. Greed does not fare well with it, and it will go out of it's way to fuck you if you abuse it's power.
this is my opinion.
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Re: Largest LSD Lab Seizure in DEA History [Re: GGreatOne234]
#1721137 - 07/16/03 11:52 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Wow!!!! That is ALOT of cid! They must have been responsible for a very significant amount of the whole country's acid...
"Further trial evidence established that in the history of DEA there have only been four seizures of complete LSD labs and three of these seizures involved Packard and Apperson including a lab in Mountain View, California in 1998, a lab in Oregon in 1996, and this lab in Wamego, Kansas"
They keep getting off, I guess !??! Hope so once again.
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Re: Largest LSD Lab Seizure in DEA History [Re: Fungushungry]
#1721390 - 07/16/03 01:46 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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90 lbs of pure crystal...
If I did my math correctly, 90 lbs would equate to around 408,600,000 hits.
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Re: Largest LSD Lab Seizure in DEA History [Re: Seuss]
#1721535 - 07/16/03 02:38 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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naw dude, more like 408,600,000,000,000,000 hits of acid
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Re: Largest LSD Lab Seizure in DEA History [Re: GGreatOne234]
#1721962 - 07/16/03 05:08 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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40,950,000,000 micrograms
I believe an average dose is 50 micrograms
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#1722047 - 07/16/03 05:39 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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#1722874 - 07/16/03 09:56 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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If you read all the postings regarding his case you'll see that he confided in someone and said that he'd eaten more lsd than anyone in the world, and when his 1988 lab got busted he was working in a room filled so heavily with crystal that when DEA agents entered they got dosed, many of them even throwing up just from breathing the air, and when they shined a blacklight in there they saw glistening remnants of LSD everywhere, at least the agents got dosed suckers
--Where can i read more in detail about this?
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 Re: Largest LSD Lab Seizure in DEA History [Re: Raadt]
#1724058 - 07/17/03 06:55 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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shows the price of greed.
LSD has karmic attachments. Greed does not fare well with it, and it will go out of it's way to fuck you if you abuse it's power.
assuming he was greedy? why?
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 Re: Largest LSD Lab Seizure in DEA History [Re: Raadt]
#1724241 - 07/17/03 09:56 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Are you certain his activity had to do with greed?
The DEA's little "hooray for us" article draws a direct comparison between end-user price and manufacturer price, suggesting that since each dose is produced for less than a penny and sold for upwards of ten dollars, Pickard is pulling in a profit of some 20,000%. This is ridiculously erroneous. If a person selling two and three pounds of LSD at a time, that person is not selling it at ten dollars a hit.
I know very little of Pickard, but it's not unreasonable to consider the possiblity that he manufactured LSD for a living because he felt it was a good thing to do for society. Perhaps he carries a certain conviction toward the dissembly of the outdated paradigm that dictates our social construct. LSD has a way of tipping people in that direction. Perhaps, then, if you want to speak of karma, his was good.
Any one man with the capability of manufacturing enough LSD to reach the entire planet wields a very heavy sword indeed.
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Re: Largest LSD Lab Seizure in DEA History [Re: World Spirit]
#1727645 - 07/18/03 02:51 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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too bad
if only acid was as easy to make as mushrooms. then there would be more of it
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#1729029 - 07/19/03 12:28 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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if you have any more 60s counterculture acid makers who want to change the world, they may begin with me, I'll freak it all up man! you know what I mean!!!
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