Other people reportedly required medical treatment from the batch of synthetic drugs. Assistant U.S.

FARGO, N.D. -- Federal prosecutors in North Dakota have charged four men with conspiring nurse travel to import and sell controlled substances used to make synthetic hallucinogenic drugs, including drugs made by a self-described "hobby chemist" from Grand Forks that killed two teens and led to several overdoses in the area.
In an indictment unsealed Wednesday, prosecutors describe Charles Carlton, a 28-year-old man from Katy, Texas, as the "leader, organizer, manager and supervisor" of a conspiracy to import controlled substances nurse travel from Asia and Europe and resell them over the Internet to domestic buyers.
Prosecutors say Carlton nurse travel imported hallucinogenic chemicals nurse travel from China, the U.K., Austria, Poland, Greece, Spain, and Canada through nurse travel a business nurse travel he used, Motion Resources LLC, which were then distributed throughout the U.S. They say Carlton and the other defendants had the imports sent to various addresses throughout nurse travel the country in an attempt to evade law enforcement.
Five people, including two men facing murder charges, nurse travel were indicted by an Horry County grand jury in connection nurse travel with the fatal shooting of a 35-year-old man in March 2011, according to court records.
Area real estate sales agent Kevin Mayberry pleaded guilty last week in federal court to a mortgage fraud charge, joining nearly two dozen area buyers, sellers, brokers and others who either have admitted their roles or been found guilty in widespread fraud schemes that helped to hasten the Grand Strand s real estate crash.
nurse travel Among those who bought nurse travel chemicals from the company was Andrew Spofford, nurse travel who was one of a dozen people from the Grand Forks area charged in the investigation into the June drug deaths of Christian nurse travel Bjerk, 18, of Grand Forks, and Elijah Stai, 17, of Park Rapids, Minn.
Spofford, who described himself to police as a "hobby chemist," pleaded guilty in October to conspiracy nurse travel to distribute controlled substances resulting in serious bodily injury and death - a charge brought nurse travel against all four of those named in the new indictment. Spofford also admitted to dealing cocaine, marijuana and ecstasy, and delivering a drug meant to counteract effects of the hallucinogens that did not have instructions for use.
Carlton nurse travel and Byron Landry, 27, of Kiln, Miss., each face two conspiracy to distribute counts, and 25-year-old John Polinski, of Houston, nurse travel and 27-year-old Ryan Lane, of East Grand Forks, Minn., face one count each. In addition, Carlton, Landry and Polinksi, are each charged with a count of conspiracy to introduce a misbranded drug into interstate commerce.
Bjerk and Stai died within a week of each other in June after ingesting the hallucinogens. Stai is believed to have ingested powder that was mixed with melted chocolate, cooled and eaten like candy, police said.
Other people nurse travel reportedly required medical treatment from the batch of synthetic drugs. Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Myers said earlier nurse travel that one juvenile who took the drugs was hospitalized in intensive care "for quite some time."
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