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[IL] Chemistry graduate research assistant accused of creating meth on campus
    #28634052 - 01/25/24 06:25 AM (2 days, 12 hours ago)

Chemistry graduate research assistant accused of creating meth on campus
January 24, 2024 - WFTV

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — A graduate research assistant at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is accused of manufacturing methamphetamine in a science lab on campus, authorities said.

Jeremy M. Smalling, 45, of Belleview, Illinois, was charged with four felony counts, including aggravated unlawful participation in methamphetamine manufacturing, a Class X felony; unlawful possession of meth with intent to deliver, a Class 1 felony; unlawful possession of meth precursor, a Class 2 felony; and unlawful possession of a meth manufacturing material, a Class 2 felony, according to Madison County online court records.

The charges were filed on Jan. 12 by the Madison County State Attorney’s Office, two days after the latest alleged offenses, The Edwardsville Intelligencer reported.

Smalling, who holds a degree in chemistry, allegedly had been seen by another professor on campus in the university’s Science West building during Thanksgiving break, KTVI reported.

The professor told authorities that he became suspicious after noting that some items had been disturbed in the lab and called campus police, according to the television station.

“This was somewhat of a routine call when it originally came in, but a lot of our staff teamed up, did a lot of background, and were really able to get it to the point where there was an arrest made in the end,” SIUE police Chief David Goodwin told KTVI. “So, really, a team approach.”

Campus police said that about 12 filtration devices were found in a diluted solution of hydrochloric acid container, and equipment had been left on, according to the Intelligencer. Residue in a bowl and beaker were later tested by chemistry department officials and allegedly contained chemicals either used during and/or a byproduct of meth manufacturing, the newspaper reported.

“SIUE Police confirmed that the only person to make electronic access to the Science West Building between 11/22/23 and 11/27/23, and had a key to room 3000 (besides the reporting professor) was Jeremy Smalling,” a probable cause statement read.

SIUE police checked the National Precursor Log Exchange database that tracks pseudoephedrine purchases, KTVI reported. Investigators said that according to the database, Smalling was listed as attempting 365 pseudoephedrine purchases in the last 10 years and was blocked from purchases 45 times.

Illinois law flags purchases that exceed a 30-day supply during a one-month period, according to the television station.

After obtaining a GPS search warrant for Smalling’s vehicle, investigators found evidence and also observed Smalling at several stores, allegedly buying pseudophedrine and/or items known to be used in the manufacture of methamphetamine, according to court documents.

They included boxes of matches, acetone, latex gloves, a coffee grinder, a scale, a drain cleaner and calcium chews, the Intelligencer reported.

After obtaining a search warrant for Smalling’s vehicle, investigators allegedly discovered approximately 12 grams of methamphetamine, according to the newspaper.

“SIUE is aware of an ongoing law enforcement investigation concerning an individual who was previously enrolled as an SIUE student,” a university spokesperson said in a statement to KTVI. “The individual does not have access to campus. SIUE P.D. will continue to partner with Madison County authorities and other law enforcement agencies to ensure the safety of our campus community.”

Smalling is listed as winning the 2018 award for physical chemistry at the university, according to the television station.

Smalling is expected to appear in court on Friday, online records show.


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Re: [IL] Chemistry graduate research assistant accused of creating meth on campus [Re: veggie]
    #28634414 - 01/25/24 11:49 AM (2 days, 7 hours ago)

Reminds me of an old member of opiophile before its demise... He synthesized pcp and fentanyl on campus, long before the fentanyl crisis. Before I guess after a night of too much PCP he went stark raving mad running and screaming down the halls.

He and his buddy had done so much pure fentanyl, and were probably suffering from polydrug withdrawals that weren't being treated, that it became an extreme challenge to get on maintenance therapy. Even 300mg a day of methadone was falling short, struggling to find any medical practitioners willing to go further to treat them(or at least one of them, been so long).

As far as this guy is concerned, he clearly would have been better off just stealing the glassware he needed and doing this at home... But maybe he didn't want to go through the trouble of building his own hoods. I wonder what route he was using, I guess soon I'll be able to look up the case and see what the precursor was. If he had pure norepinephrine, then obtaining lithium is easy enough, he definitely could have done this at home safely even if he was producing his own ammonia... And it's not like those labs are set up for bulk production, so with a little cleverness he should have been able to obtain all the ammonia necessary ready to go and neutralized any smells with even with little room.

Probably just overconfident, or maybe he was on benzos... Clouding his judgment.

I always found it kind of humorous the lengths trained chemists would go to follow safety protocols before battering their bodies with the hard drugs they made.

Also, sounds like he was going through a lot of trouble to either get maximum yields, or recover every bit of norepinephrine he was purifying, rather than getting in in and out... I guess he saw Thanksgiving break as an opportunity to make enough to last him for a long long time... Surely he wasn't doing it for money as cheap as meth is now.


Edited by Holybullshit (01/25/24 12:10 PM)


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Re: [IL] Chemistry graduate research assistant accused of creating meth on campus [Re: Holybullshit]
    #28634567 - 01/25/24 02:15 PM (2 days, 4 hours ago)

Lots of people have had the idea of learning chemistry in order to  make drugs, but it would be next level, if you pioneered unflagged chemicals more foodsafe than HCl. :shrug:


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Re: [IL] Chemistry graduate research assistant accused of creating meth on campus [Re: durian_2008]
    #28634622 - 01/25/24 03:04 PM (2 days, 3 hours ago)

Lots of people have the idea, very few go through with it.

Those that I have known who have, especially at the University level, not some shake and bake operation, have just had a concurrent love of chemistry... And drugs. And their two interest naturally merged, they didn't get into chemistry to get high.

It's probably the same with this guy, or given his age that he was already into chemistry before he ever started doing drugs. Like I said, meth is cheap, so cheap that you can't make real money off it unless you're making it in bulk nowadays, not money worth the prison time, and anyone with a job can support a habit... He likely went ahead with synthesis because of his love of chemistry. Not because he couldn't source it elsewhere. Or he just wanted to be sure he had "safe" meth(lol).


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Re: [IL] Chemistry graduate research assistant accused of creating meth on campus [Re: Holybullshit]
    #28634627 - 01/25/24 03:08 PM (2 days, 3 hours ago)

Also, you can learn it without the college debt; I once knew a native drunk, who died young of a heart attack.


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Re: [IL] Chemistry graduate research assistant accused of creating meth on campus [Re: durian_2008]
    #28634652 - 01/25/24 03:27 PM (2 days, 3 hours ago)

It's doable, takes a lot more dedication and natural intelligence. If you don't have the kind of parents that can assist with at least a local state or community college, then you aren't likely to have been in a school district to have taught you the requisite math and science skills to teach yourself real chemistry. Maybe you can follow along with somebody else's instructions and a lot of help online and have a little success with easier routes. You're going to need to at least get some financial aid and go to community college to get those to make sense of most chemistry textbooks.

But to teach yourself literally everything you need to do real chem on your own you are going to need to be very driven, and gifted. And at least lucky enough to have lived in a decent public school district despite your family's financial standing.

And to get very far with it, at least safely, you need a substantial amount of financial resources for glassware.

I.E. not already addicted to drugs, and not just driven to get high, but a real love and without the distraction, financial drain, or stress of supporting a habit.

And then you still can't get a real job in the industry. So basically a genius wasting their fucking time and gifts. When they could be doing something meaningful, or could go get a real education on the relative cheap at a state school and get a real job doing what you love and pay your loans off in no time. So what's the point?

Takes a lot of stars lining up right to get further than shake and bake, to have a real understanding that you can practically apply. Glassware to do something with it. And access to the needed catalysts and precursors.

Meth is one of the easiest drug synthesis there are. And you can't really make anything much more interesting than that without real equipment. Even if, you're likely to have all kind of nasty contaminants in it if you do it self-taught with a DIY rig.

Especially nowadays when you have to make precursors yourself.

Do it any other way and you're likely to be akin to a moonshiner making liquor with a rusted out car radiator. End up something that no one should really consume, and poison or hurt yourself in the process of making it.

I mean if you're smart you can teach yourself theoretical quantum physics, rocket science, medicine. All easier than teaching yourself chemistry honestly, as none require equipment. But without credentials, you're never going to be able to use them in a meaningful way. So why bother? It'll barely amount to a hobby.

Of course I say that as somebody who knows more about neuropharmacology than most psychiatrists. Even without a related degree was asked to become a research assistant once, but it didn't pay enough to survive on, lol.


Edited by Holybullshit (01/25/24 03:45 PM)


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Re: [IL] Chemistry graduate research assistant accused of creating meth on campus [Re: Holybullshit] * 1
    #28634723 - 01/25/24 04:50 PM (2 days, 2 hours ago)



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Re: [IL] Chemistry graduate research assistant accused of creating meth on campus [Re: veggie]
    #28635058 - 01/25/24 09:52 PM (1 day, 21 hours ago)

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...allegedly had been seen by another professor on campus...




I'm confused. If "another professor" saw Smalling, and Smalling himself was not a faculty member but an RA, who was the first professor?


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Re: [IL] Chemistry graduate research assistant accused of creating meth on campus [Re: Holybullshit]
    #28635261 - 01/26/24 05:55 AM (1 day, 13 hours ago)

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Holybullshit said:
I always found it kind of humorous the lengths trained chemists would go to follow safety protocols before battering their bodies with the hard drugs they made.






Well, a properly produced drug should contain nothing but the drug and negligible amounts of anything else. As long as a drug, like meth for example, is 99% pure, then only small amounts of it should be needed for a person who is healthy and capable of controlling their use of the drug, and being aware of any and all effects that the drug is having on them. Usually when a drug isn't pure, a person will need to use more of it because they aren't getting the same desired effect as using it when it's pure. An unhealthy person is far more likely to overuse a drug like meth, and experience extreme and unwanted effects from it, especially if the drug isn't pure. It doesn't really make sense for people to think meth is unhealthy when it can't possibly be unhealthy when it's pure, because the only reason someone would experience unwanted effects from pure meth is if they used too much or they were physically or mentally/emotionally unhealthy.


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Re: [IL] Chemistry graduate research assistant accused of creating meth on campus [Re: thirtygoats]
    #28635271 - 01/26/24 06:26 AM (1 day, 12 hours ago)

This happened at the university I attended in the seventies.
When a certain grad student needed money, for school related needs,
he'd produce a batch of white, clumping and pasty powder that he
sold as a kind of speed. I never tried it because I'm not into stimulants, and if stored in aluminium foil, it would dissolve
the foil. And there were people who injected this stuff....


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Re: [IL] Chemistry graduate research assistant accused of creating meth on campus [Re: sonoramo]
    #28635559 - 01/26/24 12:09 PM (1 day, 6 hours ago)

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...allegedly had been seen by another professor on campus...



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sonoramo said:
I'm confused. If "another professor" saw Smalling, and Smalling himself was not a faculty member but an RA, who was the first professor?



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Parallel construction is a law enforcement process of building a parallel, or separate, evidentiary basis for a criminal investigation in order to conceal how an investigation actually began.

In the US, a particular form is evidence laundering, where one police officer obtains evidence via means that are in violation of the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and then passes it on to another officer, who builds on it and gets it accepted by the court under the good-faith exception as applied to the second officer.




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Re: [IL] Chemistry graduate research assistant accused of creating meth on campus [Re: Holybullshit]
    #28636122 - 01/26/24 07:55 PM (23 hours, 17 seconds ago)

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Holybullshit said:
It's doable, takes a lot more dedication and natural intelligence. If you don't have the kind of parents that can assist with at least a local state or community college, then you aren't likely to have been in a school district to have taught you the requisite math and science skills to teach yourself real chemistry. Maybe you can follow along with somebody else's instructions and a lot of help online and have a little success with easier routes. You're going to need to at least get some financial aid and go to community college to get those to make sense of most chemistry textbooks.

But to teach yourself literally everything you need to do real chem on your own you are going to need to be very driven, and gifted. And at least lucky enough to have lived in a decent public school district despite your family's financial standing.

And to get very far with it, at least safely, you need a substantial amount of financial resources for glassware.

I.E. not already addicted to drugs, and not just driven to get high, but a real love and without the distraction, financial drain, or stress of supporting a habit.

And then you still can't get a real job in the industry. So basically a genius wasting their fucking time and gifts. When they could be doing something meaningful, or could go get a real education on the relative cheap at a state school and get a real job doing what you love and pay your loans off in no time. So what's the point?

Takes a lot of stars lining up right to get further than shake and bake, to have a real understanding that you can practically apply. Glassware to do something with it. And access to the needed catalysts and precursors.

Meth is one of the easiest drug synthesis there are. And you can't really make anything much more interesting than that without real equipment. Even if, you're likely to have all kind of nasty contaminants in it if you do it self-taught with a DIY rig.

Especially nowadays when you have to make precursors yourself.

Do it any other way and you're likely to be akin to a moonshiner making liquor with a rusted out car radiator. End up something that no one should really consume, and poison or hurt yourself in the process of making it.

I mean if you're smart you can teach yourself theoretical quantum physics, rocket science, medicine. All easier than teaching yourself chemistry honestly, as none require equipment. But without credentials, you're never going to be able to use them in a meaningful way. So why bother? It'll barely amount to a hobby.

Of course I say that as somebody who knows more about neuropharmacology than most psychiatrists. Even without a related degree was asked to become a research assistant once, but it didn't pay enough to survive on, lol.




We're in a golden age of cheap precursors and equipment from China. China doesn't give a fuck as long as it doesn't affect their own people. If you can follow a protocol you can cook whatever, even if you don't understand why it works. Yields might not be as good as someone with experience but ther we go.


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Edited by phenyl (01/26/24 07:56 PM)


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