"Strike" - goes down for 8 years
Jasbird
Supplier in drug lab ring sentenced to 8 years
By Marisa Taylor
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
September 30, 2003
The former owner of a Texas chemical distribution company was
sentenced to eight years in prison yesterday for supplying chemicals
to an Ecstasy lab in Escondido.
Hobart Huson, 35, is one of 18 people who have pleaded guilty or been
convicted in the San Diego federal case involving a lab that
authorities said was capable of producing up to 1.5 million tablets of
the drug a month.
At the time of his arrest in October 2001, Huson was a member of the
November Coalition, a nonprofit group that calls for the reform of
drug laws.
The lab was hidden in a rented office in Patton Industrial Park that
also housed an Internet pornography business operating as Infobase
Direct Marketing.
Federal authorities say the drug ring was testing the lab with the
intention of producing Ecstasy in bulk. Authorities say they believe
they raided the lab before the drug hit the streets.
Huson, under the pseudonym "Strike," also is the author of "Total
Synthesis II," a book about manufacturing illegal drugs.
"He's got an extremely well-developed sense of how these chemicals
react," said Todd Robinson, the federal prosecutor in the case. "He's
regarded as an expert by the Ecstasy underground."
Before his arrest, Huson was the subject of a TV news magazine segment
that accused him of selling chemicals to an Arizona drug lab run by
college students. Huson, the grandson of a Texas historian and the son
of a lawyer, later was indicted in a separate case connected to that
lab.
Until his guilty plea in June, Huson denied the allegations, saying
his company, Science Alliance, was a legitimate chemical supply
company.
Prosecutors say he helped run the Hive, an online chat room aimed at
underground chemists that referred users to Huson's business.
Huson resigned from Science Alliance, the Humble, Texas, company that
he co-owned, soon after his arrest.
Dennis Alba of Oceanside, who was convicted by a federal jury in July,
faces 20 years to life in prison as a leader of the drug ring.
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, most Ecstasy is
"cooked" in labs outside the United States. The agency estimates that
about 80 percent of the world supply of Ecstasy is produced in Europe.
Testimony during Alba's trial revealed that he set up a meeting to
discuss operating a lab in Mexico with members of the Joaquin Guzman
Loera drug cartel, Robinson said. Guzman, known as "El Chapo," escaped
from a maximum security prison in Mexico in January 2001.
American
"Anonymous A. Anonymous" <Anon...@mail.Anonymous.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 10:28:00 GMT, Jasbird
> <Jasbird#dead-mail-box#@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
>
><http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030930-9999_1m30ecstasy.htm
> to find anywhere.
Try buying one. It would help pay the defense against the offensive and
violent christian jew cop taxus government.
Someone Somewhere
"Anonymous A. Anonymous" <Anon...@mail.Anonymous.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 10:28:00 GMT, Jasbird
> <Jasbird#dead-mail-box#@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>
> Would anyone be willing to post Strike's books? They are impossible
> to find anywhere.
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>>>Supplier in drug lab ring sentenced to 8 years
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>>>sentenced to eight years in prison yesterday for supplying chemicals
>>>to an Ecstasy lab in Escondido.
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>> to find anywhere.
>
<gbsj...@gshlgkhlgh.com> wrote:
>Total Synthesis II is at Amazon.com
As is Sources - also written by Strike.