Federal prosecutors in North Dakota have charged four men with conspiring 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 from Asia and Europe and resell them over the Internet to domestic buyers.
