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carlton had an idea to turn his passion for synthetic hallucinogens into a business. he would limit his customers to those like him, knowledgeable and interested in experimenting with synthetic highs. his company, motion resources, with its website called motionresearch, would be a boutique drug dealership for enthusiasts. we could put in people s hands things that they wouldn t be able to get otherwise. but it was turning into a real business that it was. you could at least make a go of it. absolutely. though the company s product mimicked the illegal drug lsd, carlton says the chemicals he was selling weren t yet scheduled or banned in the united states. he set up shop in this office building, even registered with the secretary of state, and went to work. i was an employee of my own company, getting a w-2. ....
I mean, we had full payroll services. it was as legitimate as it could be. we knew we were walking a very fine line as far as the law was concerned. but at the time we thought we were on the right side of it. without so much as leaving his computer, carlton says he and his two colleagues were repackaging chemicals they bought in bulk, filling 30 to 40 orders a day. it s fairly easy to find chemical suppliers. the product sells itself. generally as much of it as you can get you can get rid of pretty quickly. motion resources had customers in all 50 states, and profits were rolling in. carlton was not unlike any other drug trafficker. he s looking for the best ....
That it was ours. what was your immediate reaction? i was in shock. i have kids. you know. that s not we didn t want anything like that to happen. i mean, that s the only reaction i had. i mean, i don t even know how to describe it. did you go to work the next day? well, i did. carlton says he didn t want to draw attention, so he continued to run motion resources as if nothing had happened. he says he was trying to sell off his supply, shut the business down. but the prosecutor says there s evidence carlton was in the process of changing the business name, allegedly to keep motion ....
Other than to consume it and to experience the high? well, that s a good question. make no mistake, we knew people were consuming it. i honestly don t know how it grew so fast. but it got to the point where we d process $40,000 to $50,000 a month in credit card payments. i mean, at that point you thought hey, i ve got a legitimate shop running here? i did. it was all going so well. motion resources was up and running for eight months. grand forks police were called to until one day carlton saw a story on the news about drug overdoses in grand forks, north dakota. i saw a news story where there was an overdose death in north dakota, and then pretty quickly there was a tv news report and they showed a baggie that said 25in-bome on it. and we used very specific bags. and we had a very special label maker that printed on clear labels. and it was blatantly obvious ....
Phone call that would crack the case. before we heard of motion resources his partner contacted our office through his lawyer and indicated to us that he could explain the entire conspiracy to us. mickeles would avoid prosecution. but charles carlton would not be so lucky. and when police raided the office of motion resources and carlton s home, they found this critical piece of evidence. proof that carlton s guise of legitimacy, that his drugs were being sold for research, was all just a cover for their real purpose. in his own hand carlton was detailing how to use his drugs and just how dangerous they could be. it was a journal documenting these substances being used by mr. carlton and friends of mr. carlton and the effects and the various amounts of the substances and how they would affect the body. ....