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    #19603839 - 02/22/14 11:52 AM (10 years, 10 days ago)

  • 1969:  Roky Erickson of The 13th Floor Elevators is arrested for marijuana possession




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Mental illness and legal problems

In 1968, while performing at HemisFair, Erickson began speaking gibberish. He was soon diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and sent to a Houston psychiatric hospital, where he involuntarily received electroconvulsive therapy.

The Elevators were vocal proponents of LSD, mescaline, DMT and marijuana use, and were subject to extra attention from law enforcement agencies. In 1969, Erickson was arrested for possession of a single marijuana joint in Austin. Facing a potential ten-year incarceration, Erickson pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to avoid prison. He was first sent to the Austin State Hospital. After several escapes, he was sent to the Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where he was subjected to more forced electroconvulsive therapy and Thorazine treatments, ultimately remaining in custody until 1972. Six tracks from the 1999 Erickson collection Never Say Goodbye were recorded during his time there.


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Austin Pair Arrested On Drug Charge

  A small plastic vial reflected a little too much light early Saturday morning and resulted in the arrest of two 21-year-old with possession of marijuana.
  Roger Erickson of 2002 Arthur Lane and John S. Kennedy of 611 Wood Lane were charged with illegal possession of marijuana in Justice of the peace Bob Kuhn's court Saturday [February 22, 1969].


(The Austin American (Austin, Texas)    23 Feb 1969, Sun    Page 6)









  • 1973:  Billy Hitchcock surrenders himself to federal authorities on tax evasion charges




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Mellon Trial To U.S. Judge

  PITTSBURGH (AP)—The government's case against Mellon family heir William Mellon Hitchcock was referred to a federal judge for trial following Hitchcock's arraignment here Thursday on charges of evading $543,800 in federal income taxes.
  Hitchcock, grandson of the late William Larimer Mellon, founder of Gulf Oil, evaded the taxes on his returns for the years 1966 through 1968 on income from a numbered Swiss bank account, according to U.S. Atty. Richard L. Thorn-burgh.
  Hitchcock entered a plea of not guilty before a U.S. magistrate and his bond was continued at $50,000.
  The tax evasion charges were returned against him here last week in a multicount indictment handed down by a federal grand jury.
  A warrant was issued for Hitchcock, currently a resident of Tucson, Ariz., and he surrendered to federal authorities here last Thursday [February 22, 1973].
  No date was set for his trial.


(Somerset Daily American (Somerset, Pennsylvania), 02 Mar 1973, Fri, Page 12)




Oil Heir Testifies on Financing of LSD Lab

BY DARYL LEMBKE
Times Staff Writer


  SAN FRANCISCO—An heir to the Gulf Oil Corp. fortune testified in federal court here Wednesday that he arranged financing of a laboratory in Windsor, Calif., for manufacturing hallucinogenic drugs.
  William Mellon Hitchcock, 34, now of Tucson, described in detail a series of meetings in the Bahamas, Switzerland and Northern California at which arrangements were made to establish the laboratory.

  He testified as a prosecution witness in a trial in which Nicholas Sand, Robert Timothy Scully and Dr. Lester Friedman are charged with conspiracy to violate laws prohibiting the manufacture and distribution of LSD. Hitchcock was named in the indictment as a co-conspirator but was not indicted.
  The federal government claims the laboratory at Windsor, north of Santa Rosa, and another in Brussells, Belgium, were used to manufacture vast amounts of LSD. The indictment also claims the drug was marketed through the Hell's Angels motorcycle club in Northern California and the Eternal Brotherhood of Love in Southern California.
  Hitchcock, son of famed onetime polo star Tommy Hitchcock, described his occupation as "investment counselor." He said he attended the University of Vienna and the University of Texas but never completed college.

  He testified that he first met Sand, a chemist, at the Hitchcock estate and cattle ranch in Millbrook, N.Y., in late 1966. He said he was introduced by Dr. Richard Alpert, a former Harvard University professor who was living at Millbrook along with Dr. Timothy Leary. another ex-Harvard professor and LSD guru now serving a term in Folsom prison.
  Hitchcock said he later was visited at his New York apartment by Sand and was given a vial of a drug, DET, similar to LSD, which Sand said he had made.
  Hitchcock said he smoked some of the DET powder in a cigarette and found that it gave a hallucinogenic effect similar to LSD, only of a shorter duration.
  The witness said he had previously taken LSD "about 25 times."
  Hitchcock related that he moved to Sausalito, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco and met Scully at his home there in late 1967.
  He testified that he loaned $10,000 to Scully to buy glassware for a laboratory in San Francisco.
  "Scully said he was manufacturing LSD," said Hitchcock. "I told him that I used it. I told him it gave me the closest thing I'd ever had to a religious experience in my life."
  He described helping Sand open bank accounts in the Bahamas and Switzerland in which money from various sources was deposited and used to purchase materials overseas that were needed to make LSD.
  He said that in October, 1968, he, Sand and Friedman, a chemistry professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, strolled on the Berkeley campus of the University of California and discussed manufacturing hallucinogenics.
  He described how he, Scully and another man took a truck down the San Francisco Peninsula in late 1968, picked up chemicals and laboratory equipment from an old house where they were stored and moved them to Windsor.  Asst. U.S. Atty. John Milano claimed in his opening argument that at one point in 1970, Sand delivered 300,000 pills of LSD to the Brotherhood of Eternal Love near Laguna Reach.


(The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles California Thu Nov 15 1973 Page 27)









  • 1974:  George Baral receives his first mistrial for his LSD, DET, MDA and/or MDMA lab




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Mistrial Declared in Narcotics Case

  A mistrial was declared late yesterday [02/22/1974] in the case of two men charged with conspiring to break federal narcotics laws by manufacturing LSD and other illegal substances on a remote farm in Robertson County.
  No date was set for the retrial of George Baral, 28, of Baltimore. a chemist, and Michael Hamilton, 25, of Miami, a truck driver.

  THE JURY of four women and eight men reported about 6 p.m. that they were hopelessly deadlocked.

  The jury had sent a note to Gray earlier, asking him to redefine "conspiracy."
  He told them again that the legal meaning of conspiracy is "an agreement be-tween a defendant and some-one else to commit an offense," followed by an overt act in furtherance of the agreement by one of the parties to it. 
  The government's case had been characterized by defense
attorneys R. Price Nimmo, for Baral, and Robert Brandt, for Hamilton, as "sheer speculation" and "conjecture."
  Asst. U.S. Atty. Irvin Kilcrease Jr. had argued that the laboratory in the farmhouse basement and the ordering of chemicals that could have been used in manufacturing illegal drugs constituted "peculiar circumstances." 
  Two other men were indicted originally. One, David Muncaster, is a fugitive who has never been indicted. The other, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago, David MacKenzie, 32, had the charge against him dismissed.


(Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee)    23 Feb 1974, Sat Page 2)




[Note: A future report that year clarified the chemicals he was accused of producing.]

  "A second mistrial was declared late yesterday in the federal court case of George Baral, 28, of Baltimore, on charges of conspiracy to make illegal drugs popularly known as LSD, DET and MDA.
  Baral's attorney, R. Price Nimmo, admitted that his client had found a way to make a drug similar to the hallucinogenic drug 3, 4 methylenedioxyamphetamine [MDA], which is controlled by law. But, he said, the drug Baral made actually was 3, 4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine [MDMA], which is not controlled by law."


(Tennessean (Nashville, Tennessee)  30 Mar 1974, Sat Page 25)









  • 1995:  Friedhelm Wilhelm Koenig is arrested for manufacturing MDMA




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Scientist Faces Drug Charges
Man Sold 'Ecstasy' In N.M., FBI Says By Scott Sandlin
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
A German man with a doctorate in physical science faces federal drug conspiracy charges in New Mexico as an alleged major player in an organization manufacturing and distributing the drug known as "Ecstasy." Friedhelm Wilhelm Koenig, 44, who is being held in federal custody without bond, is charged in a superceding indictment with conspiracy to distribute the drug MDMA — shorthand for the chemical methylenedioxymethamphetamine. The new indictment, handed down by a Las Cruces grand jury Thursday, also seizes more than $1 million in U.S. cur-rency, as well as real estate in Riverside County, Calif., seven German luxury cars, real estate, $560,000 in an account in Luxembourg and Koenig's 1.6 carat diamond wedding ring. Also seized were six pieces of art worth $48,000 and stereo components and five televisions valued at $10,000.
  The indictment alleges the property was the proceeds of drug trafficking and is subject to forfeiture. Koenig, also known as Wilhelm Werner Koenig, is a German national who has been living in Tijuana, Mexico. He was arrested Feb. 22 in San Diego and appeared before a federal magistrate in Albuquerque earlier this month. The prosecution is centered in New Mexico because it was one of the potential expansion markets for the drug, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. According to an FBI affidavit, an informant interviewed in Albuquerque by FBI and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents on Feb. 16 told them that Koenig, called "The Doctor," was a manufacturer and distributor of "Ecstasy." The drug is a form of speed. The informant told agents that Koenig had a lab in Tijuana capable of producing several million tablets of "Ecstasy" a month. "Koenig allegedly headed an organization which was responsible for smuggling and distributing MDMA tablets in several areas of the United States," the affidavit says. FBI and DEA agents working with the informant seized 7,000 suspected tablets of "Ecstasy" from two locations in San
Diego on Feb. 19, the affidavit says. Agents also tape-recorded a meeting between Koenig and Morris Rogers, described in the affidavit as a member of Koenig's distribution organization. On the tape, Koenig discusses the production, smuggling and distribution of MDMA tablets from Mexico into Albuquerque and elsewhere, the quality of the tablets produced, the distribution of tens of thousands of doses and the recruitment of new distributors in New Mexico, Texas and Louisiana, the affidavit says. Koenig faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine up to $1 million if he is convict-ed on the charges, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Rogers, 55, a federal fugitive who had been living in Tijuana, was arrested at the Albuquerque International Sunport on Feb. 16 and is being held in federal custody in El Paso. The FBI said two related arrests on drug charges were made by the Mexican Federal Judicial Police on Feb. 24: Gustavo Armenia Ziniiga, 32, and Ruben Pecina Tule, 21, both of Tijuana. Mexican police also seized 156 kilos of "Ecstasy" in pill form and between 10 and 20 metric tons of precursor chemicals in Tijuana, the FBI said.


(Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, New Mexico)  28 Mar 1995, Tue Page 17)

















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Re: Today in psychedelic history (02/22) [Re: Learyfan] * 4
    #19603862 - 02/22/14 11:56 AM (10 years, 10 days ago)

Boohoo LE.
Sucks that he had to go to a mental institution just because he was trying to enjoy his life with some weed.
The logic of this country is asenine sometimes.


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (02/22) [Re: Webster10]
    #21312729 - 02/22/15 12:04 PM (9 years, 10 days ago)

And all the shock treatment and drugs he received there exacerbated his schizophrenia, some believe, which had a long lasting effect on him the rest of his life as well as his family. 

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Re: Today in psychedelic history (02/22) [Re: Learyfan] * 1
    #21313041 - 02/22/15 01:23 PM (9 years, 10 days ago)

I love 13th Floor Elevators


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    #22932553 - 02/22/16 05:47 AM (8 years, 10 days ago)

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    #24110143 - 02/22/17 06:44 AM (7 years, 9 days ago)

Annual bump.












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    #24110508 - 02/22/17 09:57 AM (7 years, 9 days ago)

I love these threads, dude, keep it up.


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Re: Today in psychedelic history (02/22) [Re: lovelaughlibs]
    #25012531 - 02/22/18 06:35 AM (6 years, 9 days ago)

45th anniversary of Billy Hitchcock surrendering to authorities on tax evasion charges, which would end up being leveraged against him to get him to testify in the Sand, Scully and Friedman LSD lab trial. 











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    #25829361 - 02/22/19 06:39 AM (5 years, 9 days ago)

45th anniversary of the FIRST mistrial of George Baral.  His arrest is the earliest MDMA lab bust that I'm aware of.  Law enforcement thought he was making MDA, LSD and DET, not MDMA (which wasn't illegal at the time).  It isn't clear to me exactly what he was actually making.

I have no idea how this whole thing turned out, but there were two mistrials (1st mistrial and 2nd mistrial) in his case.  He may have gotten off scot-free due to his defense that he was making the (legal) MDMA and/or because of an illegal search.  If anyone has any further information on this case, please share it with me/us.













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Re: Today in psychedelic history (02/22) [Re: lovelaughlibs]
    #26498128 - 02/22/20 08:21 AM (4 years, 9 days ago)

25th anniversary of the Friedhelm Wilhelm Koenig MDMA lab bust today.  I can't find much else about this case online, except for this.  Looks like he was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1999 for the lab. 



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Friedhelm Wilhelm Koenig ran one of Tijuana's biggest clandestine drug labs

By Matt Potter, April 8, 1999

A German scientist who ran one of Tijuana's biggest clandestine drug labs has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison by a judge in New Mexico. Forty-six-year-old Friedhelm Wilhelm Koenig was busted three years ago after undercover drug agents discovered his Mexican operation was pumping out millions of "ecstasy" tablets, the hallucinogenic methamphetamine derivative, for shipment to the Southwest and beyond. According to an account in last week's Albuquerque Journal, Koenig produced the drug at Euromex, a Tijuana factory that ostensibly made pesticides destined for Guatemala and Belize. "This drug operation was one of the largest ever found and dismantled as a result of prosecution by the U.S. government," a prosecutor told the judge.


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    #28198620 - 02/22/23 04:17 AM (1 year, 8 days ago)

50th anniversary of Billy Hitchcock surrendering himself to federal authorities on tax evasion charges. The feds would soon leverage these charges against him to pressure Hitchcock into snitching on Nick Sand, Tim Scully, et al.








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    #28200001 - 02/22/23 10:29 PM (1 year, 7 days ago)

Thanks for this, I need to do my taxes soon!


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    #28670792 - 02/22/24 03:50 AM (8 days, 14 hours ago)

:grin: Yes, let Hitchcock's situation to be a lesson to everyone about doing your taxes. :grin:

But anyway, today is the 55th anniversary of Roky Erickson's marijuana possession bust. It was a situation that spiraled into his undoing mentally.

It's also the 50th anniversary of George Baral receiving his first mistrial for his LSD, DET, MDA and/or MDMA lab. I personally believe that George Baral is one of the first ever MDMA chemists.








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