Home | Community | Message Board


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: Bridgetown Botanicals CBD Concentrates   PhytoExtractum Buy Bali Kratom Powder, Kratom Powder for Sale   Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Offlineloopin20
Stranger
Female
Registered: 10/12/05
Posts: 785
Last seen: 17 years, 3 months
biggest LSD bust in history
    #5776168 - 06/21/06 11:37 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

I was looking for info about the rumored bonnaroo LSD bust and came upon this:

William J. Renton, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the St. Louis Division, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and United States Attorney Eric Melgren announced today that William Leonard Pickard, 58, Mill Valley, California, and Clyde Apperson, 48, Sunnyvale, California, were sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Judge Richard D. Rogers. Pickard was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Apperson was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment without parole.

Melgren said that Pickard and Apperson were found guilty on March 31, 2003, following an eleven week jury trial 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.


Leonard Pickard
Melgren stated that according to court testimony, this was the single largest seizure of an operable LSD lab in the history of the Drug Enforcement Administration. DEA agents seized approximately 41.3 kilograms (90.86 pounds) of LSD, approximately 97.5 kilograms (214.5 pounds) of lysergic acid, a precursor to LSD, approximately 23.6 kilograms (51.92 pounds) of iso-LSD, a by-product from the manufacture of LSD and 19 kilograms (41.8 pounds) of ergocristine, a precursor to LSD with the ability to create an additional 12.4 kilograms (27.28 pounds 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 Pickard and Apperson including a lab in Mountainview, California in 1998, a lab in Oregon in 1996, and this lab in Wamego, Kansas.

Melgren said that 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.


The site of the LSD lab was a former missile silo.
Melgren commended the excellent work of the Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA Task Force, and Kansas Highway Patrol with special recognition to Special Agent Karl Nichols, DEA, Special Agent Roger Hanzlik, DEA Task Force, Ralph Sorrell, Leavenworth Police Department/DEA Task Force, and O.C.D.E.T.F. in this investigation and Assistant U.S. Attorney Greg Hough in this prosecution. O.C.D.E.T.F., Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, is a Congressionally funded task force with multi-agency federal, state and local members dedicated to investigating and prosecuting large-scale narcotics and money laundering cases nationally.


During the case, agents seized highly sophisticated chemical glasswae required to manufacture LSD.
"Our nation's war on drugs is not limited to major metropolitan areas or border states. Manufacturers and traffickers of illegal drugs are increasingly moving to less populated areas in an attempt to avoid detection," Melgren said. "This case clearly demonstrates that moving such illegal activity to Kansas is a mistake. Due to the cooperative efforts of our federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, they will be caught. Due to the commitment of my office, they will be aggressively prosecuted. Due to Kansans' common sense and respect for the law, those who are guilty of such activity will be convicted. And due to the federal sentencing guidelines, they will be sentenced to significant time in prison. The message from this case is clear: drug dealers and manufacturers may not consider Kansas a place where they may get away with their illegal activies.


The decomination process following the seizure of the LSD lab.
DEA Special Agent in Charge William J. Renton, Jr. stated, "the sentencing of William Pickard and Clyde Apperson brings to conclusion their significant role in the international production and distribution of LSD. These defendants were proven, by overwhelming evidence, to be responsible for the illicit manufacture of the majority of the LSD sold in this nation. The proof of the significance of these prosecutions and convictions lies in the fact that LSD availability in the United States was reduced by 95 % in the two years following their arrest. The Drug Enforcement Administration is proud to have led this historic investigation, and to have had the close cooperation of our partners in state and local law enforcement. I congratulate U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren and his staff for the outstanding prosecution conducted in this matter."


They were making 10,000,000 hits a month and it cost them a penny a hit to make. Wow.

mod edit - link broken.


Edited by loopin20 (06/21/06 11:49 AM)


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleVvellum
Stranger

Registered: 05/24/04
Posts: 10,920
Re: biggest LSD bust in history [Re: loopin20]
    #5776174 - 06/21/06 11:38 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

edit that link please.
no direct links to govt sites.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflinePurpleKush
Rational Lunatic
Male User Gallery

Registered: 03/20/06
Posts: 3,421
Loc: Above The Law
Last seen: 3 years, 10 months
Re: biggest LSD bust in history [Re: loopin20]
    #5776181 - 06/21/06 11:41 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

Melgren stated that according to court testimony, this was the single largest seizure of an operable LSD lab in the history of the Drug Enforcement Administration. DEA agents seized approximately 41.3 kilograms (90.86 pounds) of LSD, approximately 97.5 kilograms (214.5 pounds) of lysergic acid, a precursor to LSD, approximately 23.6 kilograms (51.92 pounds) of iso-LSD, a by-product from the manufacture of LSD and 19 kilograms (41.8 pounds) of ergocristine, a precursor to LSD with the ability to create an additional 12.4 kilograms (27.28 pounds of LSD.




90 pounds of LSD?  is that in crystal form?  :shocked:


--------------------

:blindfury::fried::psychsplit::vaped:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleZippoZM
Knomadic
 User Gallery

Registered: 06/17/03
Posts: 13,227
Loc: Pongyang, North Korea
Re: biggest LSD bust in history [Re: Vvellum]
    #5776183 - 06/21/06 11:42 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

yeah, that happened a long time ago, pickard is serving atleast 2 life sentances right now. www.freepickard.com or org....

clyde applleson or whatever his name was narked on pickard because he got busted with mdma... crazy operation though, i mean a missile silo, wow


--------------------
PEACE

:mushroom2:zippoz:mushroom2:



"in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption"

"People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineHawkeye3
Stranger
Registered: 09/04/05
Posts: 368
Last seen: 16 years, 11 days
Re: biggest LSD bust in history [Re: PurpleKush]
    #5776185 - 06/21/06 11:42 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

OLD NEWS


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleRhysaboveit
Day Tripper
Female

Registered: 05/26/06
Posts: 218
Loc: Miami Fl
Re: biggest LSD bust in history [Re: ZippoZ]
    #5776192 - 06/21/06 11:48 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Do they destroy it after its seized?

Or do they just store it someplace?


--------------------
No point in mentioning these bats, I thought. Poor bastard will see them soon enough

"There's a uh, big machine in the sky, some kind of, I dunno, electric snake, coming straight at us."
"Shoot it."
"Not yet, I want to study its habits. "


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlineloopin20
Stranger
Female
Registered: 10/12/05
Posts: 785
Last seen: 17 years, 3 months
Re: biggest LSD bust in history [Re: Hawkeye3]
    #5776205 - 06/21/06 11:51 AM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

Hawkeye3 said:
OLD NEWS




Still interesting and I never really read up on it.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlineevolprim
human
Male User Gallery

Registered: 05/07/06
Posts: 1,226
Last seen: 8 years, 2 months
Re: biggest LSD bust in history [Re: loopin20]
    #5776272 - 06/21/06 12:08 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

i heard this: that it wasn't actually 90 pounds of LSD ,that the government was adding other random shit into that figure, and that total they only had like 16 ounces of LSD.

of course, this might just be a measly defense but something to think about


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineClammyJoe
Azurescen Head
Male

Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 11/03/05
Posts: 3,691
Loc: PNW
Last seen: 11 years, 1 month
Re: biggest LSD bust in history [Re: evolprim]
    #5776315 - 06/21/06 12:19 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Shows how bad the government is scared of it.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlineevolprim
human
Male User Gallery

Registered: 05/07/06
Posts: 1,226
Last seen: 8 years, 2 months
Re: biggest LSD bust in history [Re: Rhysaboveit]
    #5776382 - 06/21/06 12:36 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

in response to rhysaboveit .

everyone knows that after the seize it they have a MASSIVE lsd party


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleOJK
Stranger
 User Gallery
Registered: 06/08/03
Posts: 10,629
Re: biggest LSD bust in history [Re: evolprim]
    #5776405 - 06/21/06 12:43 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

evolprim said:
i heard this: that it wasn't actually 90 pounds of LSD ,that the government was adding other random shit into that figure, and that total they only had like 16 ounces of LSD.

of course, this might just be a measly defense but something to think about




http://www.slate.com/id/2114793


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlineevolprim
human
Male User Gallery

Registered: 05/07/06
Posts: 1,226
Last seen: 8 years, 2 months
Re: biggest LSD bust in history [Re: OJK]
    #5776487 - 06/21/06 01:09 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

oh it was 7 ounces, thanks for the link i remember reading that page a while ago


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineAcinaxuz
In SomnisVeritas.

Registered: 06/20/06
Posts: 231
Last seen: 16 years, 2 months
Re: biggest LSD bust in history [Re: evolprim]
    #5776546 - 06/21/06 01:26 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

wow, how nuts is that?  Talk about making examples and the lead of politics... Gotta make the force look good, like they might actually be doing something... >>cough<<

anyway  lol  Hi!  :smile:


--------------------
:~:~:~:~{ * }~:~:~:~:{ * }:~:~:~:~{ * }~:~:~:~:

All posts are made with only the intent to entertain myself and should ONLY be read with the understanding that they are FICTICIOUS. I do not warrant information I provide for use in illegal activity of any kind nor do I condone it for any reason. Furthermore, I am not, I have never, nor will I in the future, take ANY part in illegal activites.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineCepheus
Balance
Male User Gallery

Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 04/19/06
Posts: 8,266
Loc: the space between reality...
Last seen: 1 year, 1 month
Re: biggest LSD bust in history [Re: evolprim]
    #5776569 - 06/21/06 01:31 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

There is definately a shortage of acid this summer ... (even though this happened like 3 years ago)

We need an Island in international waters, with the worlds top chemists :smile:


--------------------
"I only ever hope to reach equilibrium, in Nature's matrix, in line with the meridian" ~ Jehst

:sun: "...and I know that I have to keep breathing, as tomorrow the sun will rise, who knows what the tide will bring?" :sun:

Free Spore Ring Europe
Send any spare spore prints you might have and help the distribution :grin:

Open Source. Freedom.  GNU/Linux

Addicting is not a word.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineAshford
Echoes

Registered: 02/26/06
Posts: 51
Last seen: 17 years, 6 months
Re: biggest LSD bust in history [Re: Cepheus]
    #5776705 - 06/21/06 02:06 PM (17 years, 7 months ago)

don't worry dude am going through college to become a chemist, then to my service in the military and then am just going to make so much LSD its not even funny. I did a report about it in high school once and my chemistry was just laughing the whole time.


--------------------
I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD, It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

Albert Hofmann.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: Bridgetown Botanicals CBD Concentrates   PhytoExtractum Buy Bali Kratom Powder, Kratom Powder for Sale   Kraken Kratom Red Vein Kratom


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* "Hofmann's Potion: The Early Years Of LSD"
( 1 2 all )
LearyfanS 5,938 37 11/13/04 09:48 PM
by Learyfan
* LSD special on History channel right now...
( 1 2 all )
PawPaw 4,803 29 12/29/04 04:48 PM
by Learyfan
* Terence Mckenna's stance on LSD?
( 1 2 3 all )
Spooge 10,440 52 10/09/12 09:53 PM
by Help on the Way
* LSD, dogs and me. gotta love RAW LeastResistance 1,212 4 10/22/16 05:03 PM
by tarlin
* History of the shroomery
( 1 2 3 4 all )
Rob_K 10,673 63 09/18/07 09:36 AM
by The_Ghost
* LSD or MUSHROOMS
( 1 2 all )
JettaJay 2,998 27 05/02/13 06:41 PM
by Fatherroot
* LSD history hispeed67 832 2 12/14/04 04:19 PM
by Dark_Star
* LSD is coming, yet again!
( 1 2 3 4 all )
Anonymous 5,987 64 07/14/04 06:29 PM
by nicechrisman

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Entire Staff
28,005 topic views. 2 members, 45 guests and 40 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.036 seconds spending 0.005 seconds on 12 queries.