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man busted with MDMA lab
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July 28, 2015
 Hazle Township, Pennsylvania - A former Hazleton nightclub operator owned one of the largest synthetic party drug laboratories in the commonwealth, state narcotics agents say.
Martin “Marty” J. Kelly, 32, of 500 Ridge Ave., Hazle Township, had roughly 50 kilograms of ecstasy in a clandestine laboratory in his home at the time of his arrest on Monday, along with $37,000, according to a press release from the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General.
He is accused of making MDMA at the home in the Green Ridge section of Hazle Township by the attorney general’s Bureau of Narcotics Investigation.
MDMA is a synthetic drug known as ecstasy or Molly. Labs that produce MDMA, court papers state, are “inherently” dangerous and present a potential for explosion, fire hazard and the release of both noxious and toxic fumes.
Kelly was arraigned and jailed at Luzerne County Correctional Facility, Wilkes-Barre, after failing to post $1 million bail set by Magisterial District Judge Joseph J. Carmody, West Pittston, Tuesday morning.
He was charged with felonies for possession of precursor chemicals, risking a catastrophe and two counts manufacture, delivery or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance. He also faces one misdemeanor count of possession of a controlled substance.
According to information from the Hazleton code enforcement office, Kelly is listed as owner of Pulse, a nightclub that operated at 703 W. Broad St., though the building is owned by another male. The business was closed by the city in the fall of 2014 due to health and code violations, according to the code office, and the issuance of its business permit is pending the result a health department inspection.
A liquor license under the club’s previous name, Shakers, is also not active, according to the state police Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement in Wilkes-Barre.
Arrest papers state that attorney general’s agents executed a search and seizure warrant at Kelly’s home Monday as part of an ongoing investigation and that a number of items found inside the home were consistent with the manufacture and distribution of MDMA, including MDMA doses, Safrole oil, glass vessels, and various liquids and chemicals. Scales, heat sources, beakers and manufacturing byproduct or sludge were recovered in the house, court papers state.
Investigators also seized electronic items that will be analyzed as part of a separate, ongoing investigation, according to information from the attorney general’s office.
“The lab was one of the largest discovered in recent memory within the state,” the release from the attorney general’s office states.
Two dogs were taken from the home Monday, led by leash by two unidentified males.
An approximate one-block radius around the home was closed to pedestrians and traffic Monday afternoon as the investigation began. Fire police directed traffic away from the scene and keeping onlookers away from the home for what they said were safety reasons. Neighbors said investigators were at the home into late Monday night.
The area remained closed Tuesday morning as investigators continued their work. Yellow crime scene tape was draped in front of the home and directly across the street, between Stankevich and Hagelgans streets.
Maureen Elswick was with relatives who live in the neighborhood as investigators worked Tuesday. She said the majority of neighbors were shocked yet relieved when they heard the news.
Most neighbors, Elswick said, noted Kelly was quiet and that it didn’t appear something criminal was afoot.
“Whatever the tip was that brought them here,” neighbors were relieved, she said.
Firefighters from Hazle Township, West Hazleton and Harwood also responded to the home Monday and fired water from hoses onto the home for unknown reasons.
Those entering the home Monday and Tuesday wore white full-body hazardous materials suits.
The state Department of Environmental Protection was at the home Tuesday to provide backup and monitoring for police, spokeswoman Colleen Connolly said. She said DEP was monitoring how chemicals are handled and stored at the house before they can be properly taken away and disposed of.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, MDMA is a synthetic, psychoactive drug, similar to the stimulant in amphetamine and the hallucinogen mescaline, and is typically marketed in capsule or tablet form. It produces feelings of increased energy, euphoria and distortions in sensory and time perception, the website states, with highs that can endure six hours.
Like other stimulants, MDMA can cause an increase in heart rate and blood pressure, the website states, but users can also experience muscle tension, involuntary teeth clenching, nausea, blurred vision, faintness, chills and sweating. High doses can lead to a sharp increase in temperature, which can result in liver, kidney or cardiovascular system failure or even death, according to the institute.
Taking the drug repeatedly within a short time frame can cause harmful levels to build up in the body, the website states. Adding to MDMA’s health risks, the drug may be produced with other narcotics additives, since it’s not regulated. Those additives include synthetic cathinones, the psychoactive ingredient in bath salts, which also poses serious health hazards, including death.
MDMA was initially popular among white teenagers and young adults in the nightclub scene or at long dance parties called “raves,” the institute states, but the drug now affects a broader range of users.
Attorney General Kathleen Kane thanked the following agencies for assisting with the investigation: State police at Hazleton, Pennsylvania State Police Clandestine Lab Response Team, West Hazleton police, Hazleton police, DEP emergency response team and the Luzerne County Emergency Management Agency.
 ERIC CONOVER/Staff Photographer Two of three representatives from the state Department of Environmental Protection, wearing protective suits, carry a tub filled with items from a shed outside a home at 500 Ridge Ave., West Hazleton, on Tuesday while working with agents from the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General investigating a suspected drug-manufacturing lab.
http://standardspeaker.com/news/man-arrested-after-drug-making-materials-are-found-in-home-1.1918855
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Re: man busted with MDMA lab [Re: Ogla]
#22012933 - 07/29/15 01:00 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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i thought mdma was semi synthetic
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Re: man busted with MDMA lab [Re: Ogla]
#22012948 - 07/29/15 01:04 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Noooooooo and I guess it depends on the precursor used but for the most part it's synthetic
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i wouldnt want to be in this guys shoes its all fun and games until the gavel drops.
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Re: man busted with MDMA lab [Re: mrbart4444]
#22012979 - 07/29/15 01:19 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Dudes going to be spending a good long time up in the pen wonder what finally did him in?
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mrbart4444
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My guess would be someone got jealous and ratted its inevitable
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Re: man busted with MDMA lab [Re: Ogla]
#22013479 - 07/29/15 06:18 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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losfreddy said: July 28, 2015
 Hazle Township, Pennsylvania - A former Hazleton nightclub operator owned one of the largest synthetic party drug laboratories in the commonwealth, state narcotics agents say.
Martin “Marty” J. Kelly, 32, of 500 Ridge Ave., Hazle Township, had roughly 50 kilograms of ecstasy in a clandestine laboratory in his home at the time of his arrest on Monday, along with $37,000, according to a press release from the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General.
He is accused of making MDMA at the home in the Green Ridge section of Hazle Township by the attorney general’s Bureau of Narcotics Investigation.
MDMA is a synthetic drug known as ecstasy or Molly. Labs that produce MDMA, court papers state, are “inherently” dangerous and present a potential for explosion, fire hazard and the release of both noxious and toxic fumes.
Kelly was arraigned and jailed at Luzerne County Correctional Facility, Wilkes-Barre, after failing to post $1 million bail set by Magisterial District Judge Joseph J. Carmody, West Pittston, Tuesday morning.
He was charged with felonies for possession of precursor chemicals, risking a catastrophe and two counts manufacture, delivery or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance. He also faces one misdemeanor count of possession of a controlled substance.
According to information from the Hazleton code enforcement office, Kelly is listed as owner of Pulse, a nightclub that operated at 703 W. Broad St., though the building is owned by another male. The business was closed by the city in the fall of 2014 due to health and code violations, according to the code office, and the issuance of its business permit is pending the result a health department inspection.
A liquor license under the club’s previous name, Shakers, is also not active, according to the state police Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement in Wilkes-Barre.
Arrest papers state that attorney general’s agents executed a search and seizure warrant at Kelly’s home Monday as part of an ongoing investigation and that a number of items found inside the home were consistent with the manufacture and distribution of MDMA, including MDMA doses, Safrole oil, glass vessels, and various liquids and chemicals. Scales, heat sources, beakers and manufacturing byproduct or sludge were recovered in the house, court papers state.
Investigators also seized electronic items that will be analyzed as part of a separate, ongoing investigation, according to information from the attorney general’s office.
“The lab was one of the largest discovered in recent memory within the state,” the release from the attorney general’s office states.
Two dogs were taken from the home Monday, led by leash by two unidentified males.
An approximate one-block radius around the home was closed to pedestrians and traffic Monday afternoon as the investigation began. Fire police directed traffic away from the scene and keeping onlookers away from the home for what they said were safety reasons. Neighbors said investigators were at the home into late Monday night.
The area remained closed Tuesday morning as investigators continued their work. Yellow crime scene tape was draped in front of the home and directly across the street, between Stankevich and Hagelgans streets.
Maureen Elswick was with relatives who live in the neighborhood as investigators worked Tuesday. She said the majority of neighbors were shocked yet relieved when they heard the news.
Most neighbors, Elswick said, noted Kelly was quiet and that it didn’t appear something criminal was afoot.
“Whatever the tip was that brought them here,” neighbors were relieved, she said.
Firefighters from Hazle Township, West Hazleton and Harwood also responded to the home Monday and fired water from hoses onto the home for unknown reasons.
Those entering the home Monday and Tuesday wore white full-body hazardous materials suits.
The state Department of Environmental Protection was at the home Tuesday to provide backup and monitoring for police, spokeswoman Colleen Connolly said. She said DEP was monitoring how chemicals are handled and stored at the house before they can be properly taken away and disposed of.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, MDMA is a synthetic, psychoactive drug, similar to the stimulant in amphetamine and the hallucinogen mescaline, and is typically marketed in capsule or tablet form. It produces feelings of increased energy, euphoria and distortions in sensory and time perception, the website states, with highs that can endure six hours.
Like other stimulants, MDMA can cause an increase in heart rate and blood pressure, the website states, but users can also experience muscle tension, involuntary teeth clenching, nausea, blurred vision, faintness, chills and sweating. High doses can lead to a sharp increase in temperature, which can result in liver, kidney or cardiovascular system failure or even death, according to the institute.
Taking the drug repeatedly within a short time frame can cause harmful levels to build up in the body, the website states. Adding to MDMA’s health risks, the drug may be produced with other narcotics additives, since it’s not regulated. Those additives include synthetic cathinones, the psychoactive ingredient in bath salts, which also poses serious health hazards, including death.
MDMA was initially popular among white teenagers and young adults in the nightclub scene or at long dance parties called “raves,” the institute states, but the drug now affects a broader range of users.
Attorney General Kathleen Kane thanked the following agencies for assisting with the investigation: State police at Hazleton, Pennsylvania State Police Clandestine Lab Response Team, West Hazleton police, Hazleton police, DEP emergency response team and the Luzerne County Emergency Management Agency.
 ERIC CONOVER/Staff Photographer Two of three representatives from the state Department of Environmental Protection, wearing protective suits, carry a tub filled with items from a shed outside a home at 500 Ridge Ave., West Hazleton, on Tuesday while working with agents from the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General investigating a suspected drug-manufacturing lab.
http://standardspeaker.com/news/man-arrested-after-drug-making-materials-are-found-in-home-1.1918855
PA can charge you with "risking a catastrophe"? McDonalds employees do this just as much.......
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Re: man busted with MDMA lab [Re: vandago]
#22013495 - 07/29/15 06:26 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Why wont the goverment just regulate drugs already shit. obviously theres a demand and people want drugs so how about they take control so underaged kids and crazy people cant access it .
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Re: man busted with MDMA lab [Re: mrbart4444]
#22013496 - 07/29/15 06:28 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Because that makes too much sense
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Rebelutionsssss said: Because that makes too much sense
Yup. Look at all the people they have been able to strip freedom from and essential control because of non-violent, drug related convictions. Look at how easily they are allowed to harass people and snoop through all their shit and intimidate them because they "smell marijuana" or get the dog to false alert on a car to search around or get information from people. You think they'll be giving all that up? Not any time soon.
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- "Drugs and Drug Policy: The Control of Consciousness Alteration, 2007.
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Re: man busted with MDMA lab [Re: Ogla]
#22015063 - 07/29/15 01:26 PM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Damn, he operated a nightclub and synthed mdma, they should do this in all clubs, it goes hand in hand.
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Re: man busted with MDMA lab [Re: Mi-Go]
#22015609 - 07/29/15 03:31 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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Fair play to the drug cooks, someone's gotta do it, but I don't personally understand how someone can take on that much risk...
He's not likely to be free for 20 years, if he's lucky.
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Re: man busted with MDMA lab [Re: Cepheus]
#22015653 - 07/29/15 03:39 PM (8 years, 5 months ago) |
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true that its too easy to get caught up in the money and forget what your doing could land you in prison for a very long time.
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