SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Elijah Richter, 28, of Camino, was
sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to 10 years in
prison for distribution of a controlled substance known as n25i-nBOME that
caused death, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
According to court documents, during September 2012, Richter
imported hallucinogenic drugs, including a controlled substance known as
n25i-nBOME, from Europe to his residence in El Dorado County by placing orders
on his computer through Silk Road, a now-defunct darknet website.
Through Silk Road, Richter was able to use bitcoin currency
and an anonymous interface to execute drug deals. Shortly before Sept. 8, 2012,
Richter imported a number of doses of n25i‑nBOME from Europe. Richter then
distributed some of that n25i-nBOME to Jesse Roberts. Roberts, in turn,
distributed some of that n25i-nBOME to a juvenile male who took four doses of
the n25inBOME and died as a result of an overdose on the drug. DEA and the El
Dorado County Sheriff’s Office served a search warrant at Richter’s home and
recovered 2.61 grams of MDMA, three digital scales, 3.81 grams of suspected
hash oil, 42.25 grams of marijuana, 89 pink colored tabs of suspected 25i-nBome
on paper, and seven additional tabs of suspected 25i-nBome in aluminum foil, as
well as a handwritten list of drugs and their proper dosage units. Richter
admitted to supplying the hits of n25i-nBome that killed the juvenile.
When Richter pleaded guilty on Jan. 13, 2020, he admitted
that he imported doses of n25i‑nBOME for the purpose of
distributing that substance to others for human consumption and some of those
doses ultimately were distributed and led to the juvenile’s overdose death in September 2012.
The El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office prosecuted
Roberts. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter on March 3, 2017, and
sentenced to six years in prison.
This case was the product of an investigation by the El
Dorado County Sheriff’s Office, the El Dorado County District Attorney’s
Office, and the Drug Enforcement Administration as part of an Organized Crime
Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF). The OCDETF Program was established in
1982 to conduct comprehensive, multilevel attacks on major drug trafficking and
money laundering organizations. The principal mission of the OCDETF program is
to identify, disrupt, and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking and money
laundering organizations and those primarily responsible for the nation’s drug
supply. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jason Hitt and Paul A. Hemesath prosecuted the
case.
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