[KylaStarr]

Pardon me if this has already been posted. I haven't read forward yet but did want to make sure that you all saw this. I almost skipped over reading this article, in the paper this morning, until I noticed the name of the man. still feeling hinky on this


http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051014/news_6m14lab.html

Ecstasy lab found where man took his own life
SNIP:
October 14, 2005

UNIVERSITY CITY – A drug lab capable of turning out 150,000 Ecstasy pills was found inside a man's apartment after he committed suicide with police outside his door last week, authorities said.

"This was a very sophisticated operation," Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Misha Piastro said yesterday. "It had the capacity to produce an awful lot of Ecstasy."

The man who shot and killed himself Oct. 7 was identified by the Medical Examiner's Office as Khaled Yusufi, 29, a medical student. ...................

Officers entered the apartment and confirmed that Yusufi had shot himself. A hazardous materials team spent hours removing chemicals, including acetone and liquid drain cleaner used to make Ecstasy.

Authorities found 7,000 tablets later identified as Ecstasy, a club drug similar to methamphetamine. The pills would sell for $84,000 on the street, Piastro said.

"With all the chemicals and glassware on the premises, the lab could produce 150,000 more tablets," Piastro said. "Labs this size are very rare (in San Diego County)."

He said the DEA continues to investigate, hoping to learn how long Yusufi may have been producing illegal drugs and how he distributed them.

Yusufi was not under investigation by the DEA before the events Oct. 7, Piastro said.

[bored at work]

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[Velveeta]

Med student. Just great.

[all4one]

Robert Shapiro's (OJ's attorney):

The LA Weekly has posted a web story that Brent Shapiro, the son of defense attorney and author Robert Shapiro, died Monday after taking Ecstasy. He was 24 and a student at USC. Funeral services were held today.

Link to Article

Shapiro's son died on Oct 10th after being found on Sunday, Oct. 9th unconscious...after having taken esctasy over the week-end. Just makes me wonder if he took something that was a "special" esctasy that was cooked up by this student who killed himself on the 7th......just my tinfoil working in overdrive. But IIRC there were AQ notes that indicated that they encouraged tainting street drugs.

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks for posting that, I haven't seen it.

These articles always pose more questions for me than answers. Have we read/heard anywhere yet whether he was here on a student visa? Why would a medical student waste his education to make ecstasy pills? OR, was his plan to poison the pills and distribute them to the dumb kids that use this stuff? That question arises because I still can't figure out why he would commit suicide upon being caught by the police.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thank you for printing the story on the meth lab, it is one of the sites that will not work for me.

My guess, is that he was a good fund raiser for the terrorists.

That there are that many people buying the drug, is the scary part to me.

15 years ago, our real estate law classes, started teaching that the meth makers would bring the left over chemicals over the border into Arizona and dump it in the desert, where it stayed in the soil and if a child played/ate it could get sick or die........and we would be sued.

How to you look at bare ground and know what has been dumped on it? Impossible, once it dries.

Strange how these muslim names creep into the dope scene, when most are thinking it is the mexican gangs.

[MamaDearest]

The man who shot and killed himself Oct. 7 was identified by the Medical Examiner's Office as Khaled Yusufi, 29, a medical student.

Spares us imprisonment, trials, bail and CAIR activism.