Case DIH-1951
Jake Ellis Daughtry
Owned Right Price Chemicals in Nederland, Texas, which distributed about 7,000 gallons of BDO in thousands of online orders, nearly 90 percent to residential addresses, and kept selling after learning that customers were ingesting it; at least two people died of GHB overdoses after consuming BDO the business sold.
- Court
- Federal, Eastern District of Texas
- State
- Texas
- Year sentenced
- 2022
- Drugs
- 1,4-butanediol (BDO), which the body converts to GHB
- Conduct
- Commercial sale
- Relationship
- No direct contact
- Conviction
- Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a date rape drug over the internet to an unauthorized purchaser
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 180 months in prison
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Texas’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Texas in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govJake s fireworks owner sentenced 15 years federal prison drug trafficking violations
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