Four People Dead, Two Arrested on Drug Charges, for Bad Batch of Molly
Four People Dead, Two Arrested on Drug Charges, for Bad Batch of MollyInvestigators are currently examining whether four recent deaths in three East Coast cities might be linked to a bad batch of a popular club drug called Molly, or ecstasy, which is a supposedly pure form of MDMA.
The four Molly victims are Mary ‘Shelley’ Goldsmith, 19, who died August 31 at one of Washington, DC’s largest nightclubs (although toxicology reports are pending); Olivia Rotondo, 20, and Jeffrey Russ, 23, who died at New York City’s Electric Zoo dance party after taking the drug; and Brittany Flannigan, 19, from New Hampshire, who died August 28 after apparently overdosing on MDMA at a Boston concert.
Four other party-goers were sickened in New York after taking the same batch of Molly that killed Russ and Rotondo at New York’s Electric Zoo. Three people OD’d on Molly at the Boston House of Blues on August 28th, with Flannigan OD’ing fatally on the drug. Reportedly, 12 people total suffered Molly overdoses at the Boston club over the course of the summer.
After the string of deaths and illnesses related to Molly, the DEA said that it will make the club drug a top priority in drug charges and investigations. “There’s no ‘good batch’ of molly,” Anthony Pettigrew, a spokesman for the DEA New England division, told the Boston Herald. “This is stuff that’s made in somebody’s bathtub in either Asia, the Netherlands, Canada, you have no idea what is in this stuff. Dealers want to make more money, so they’ll mix and adulterate the stuff with meth and any number of other drugs to addict people to it.”
“We are seeing (molly) goes hand-in-hand with a lot of nightclub activity, concert venues, areas where there’s a lot of teens listening to music,” said Erin Mulvey, an official with the New York arm of the Drug Enforcement Agency. “With these overdose deaths and the focus now with trying to get the awareness out, we’re trying to get in front of the problem.”
DEA special agent Joseph Moses said that Molly once described a variant of ecstasy, but as synthetic drugs get more sophisticated and complicated, people who ingest Molly could be ingesting a variety of other dangerous drugs.
“Molly for years has been the generally accepted street name for ecstasy,” Moses said. “In the past, if you ordered up Molly, you got ecstasy. That’s no longer true.”
Meanwhile, Boston police report that they have arrested 29-year-old Daniel Milisi of Boston, and 36-year-old Joseph Doolin of Quincy, Mass. The two were arrested on drug charges on Friday, September 6th, during a Molly bust. So far, Boston police have not said whether or not the two were responsible for the “bad batch” of Molly on the streets, but they have been indicted on drug charges including possession with intent to distribute and conspiracy to violate drug laws.
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