John,
I am a 21 year old college student near Buffalo NY. Around October of 1998 my roommate, brought two men into my room and introduced me to them. I did not know it at the time, but one of the men was an undercover DEA agent who became known as squirrel. The agent purchased a small amount of LSD from my roommate and began asking if he could get large amounts of the drug and told us he would pay very high prices for it. He left us his pager number and asked us to call him. At the same time I knew of a person in the Buffalo area that had what Squirrel was looking for. Considering the fact that Squirrel was older and he claimed that the drugs would only be used by his adult friends, I saw this as a (very stupid) way to fund my own drug addiction. I was smoking marijuana every day and spending nearly $500 a month on ecstasy and crystal methane. I also was also addicted to pain killers and frequently used other drugs such as cocaine, LSD, special K, mushrooms, and speed. I masked my addictions well by making the Dean's list.

Between October and February, Squirrel drove me to Buffalo on several occasions and gave me money and encouraged me to get him LSD. At first I only got him small amounts, but each time we would go to Buffalo he would try and get me to get him larger amounts of the drug. Each time the LSD remained in my possession for usually less than a few seconds. At the time I had no idea how serious a possession of LSD charge was and I didn't see my acts as malicious, I saw them as doing a favor for a friend and a way to pay for my addiction. The profit I would make from getting the acid I would use to buy drugs for myself. Squirrel was the only person I dealt drugs to. I never gave him any other drugs besides the LSD and I would only take him to the same dealer in Buffalo every time. On our long rides (2-4 hours) to Buffalo we would talk about such things as fishing, hunting, sports, and family. I trusted Squirrel and considered him my friend. I told him very personal things and never suspected that he was lying to me. Over time I began to give Squirrel the drugs for about the same cost I got them for because I was trying once again to quit using drugs and no longer needed the money to fund my habit. I looked at it as hooking a friend up instead of trying to make a profit. He told me that he had nothing to do with law enforcement and sometimes even said that he suspected me of being one. The entire time he knew that I used drugs, but never once told me to stop. Sometimes he would even encourage my abuse and laugh when I told him how often I used drugs.

Over Christmas break I became heavily addicted once again. During this time I became very depressed I even considered dropping out of college to get treatment, but I felt embarrassed. Squirrel stopped calling me and told me that his grandfather had died. I told him that I was sorry and if he needed anything he could call me anytime.

After Christmas break I quit using and wanted to try and get good grades. That's when Squirrel contacted me once again and we went to Buffalo. This time I wasn't looking to make any profit so I let him deal directly with my supplier. A few weeks later he wanted to meet with me and sell some marijuana to me and my friends for very low costs. He encouraged me, and therefore I encouraged my friends to deal with him. A few weeks later we went out to eat lunch and talk. He told me that I would need $10000 and a lot of acid in order to make the deal happen. I had trouble getting the acid at first and told Squirrel that I didn't think I could get it, but he said he was sure I could come through for him. Squirrel even told me that I didn't need all of the LSD that he first wanted, he said he would trust me to give him money or LSD later on. So after eventually it was all arranged to go down at my friends house. This is when we got arrested. None of the money or drugs involved in the deal were actually mine except the money in my pocket. My supplier had brought the LSD down to my college himself and he was there right when we got busted.

Before Squirrel came along I was just a college kid all messed up on drugs. I have had no prior record and am a nonviolent, very peaceful person. I don't understand why the DEA didn't stop me after the first time they tricked me. This way I could have realized the extent of my mistake and gotten the treatment that I needed. Instead, the law enforcement officers encouraged me to buy them more and more drugs. In return I abused drugs more frequently than I ever had before. I could understand if I was part of a major drug ring and then got busted by the DEA, however, the only major drug trafficking that I was involved in was the one that the law enforcement officers tricked me into creating. The worst part about the situation is that the DEA allowed me to continue going to college and work hard while they knew that they were going to bust me either way. I have lost all my friends and family, I am expelled from college (I was a Dean's list student), I have no money, and now they are charging me with two accounts of conspiracy LSD that carry mandatory minimum 5 years each. JK

JK,
You have asked for advice, I will give you some, but I am not qualified to advise you in this matter. If you checked out the web site you would notice that I don't condone the use of any drugs. I believe that nature provides us with what we need in the form of herbs.

First Do not tell this story to any one else except a qualified lawyer. Erase your letter to me from your files and aol files as soon as possible. I would tell you to co-operate with the police and tell them all you know in exchange for a deal, but since "the dealer" was present, I don't think you have any bargaining chips to work with. But make any deal you can, the only way to get past the mandatory minimum is to is not to be found guilty of the charges, a lesser charge may be the only way out.
You may want to contact the ACLU but they have shied away from drug cases in recent years. Other options here would be to go for a first offender deal, claim entrapment (where did your roommate fit into this deal?) did he get busted as well or was he in on it from the beginning? You say you had no idea how serious a possession of LSD charge was... you should have checked it before becoming involved. In retrospect you should have seen this coming. You did do many stupid things during this period, Good luck John


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