MIDDLETOWN–A former college student who was involved in selling a batch of the drug Molly to Wesleyan students who then overdosed has been sentenced.
Zachary Kramer, 22, of Maryland, has been sentenced to eight months of home confinement with outpatient drug treatment; four months of imprisonment; three years of supervised release; and a $10,000 fine. In November 2015 he pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute MDMA.
In 2014, after the administration at Wesleyan sent out a campus-wide communication warning of the dangers of ingesting controlled substances like Molly, the indictment said Eric Lonergan distributed a pamphlet instructing students how to use psychedelic drugs. Also in 2014, Kramer began purchasing Molly from Lonergan and distributing it to students at Wesleyan, and by 2015 became “the primary supplier of MDMA at Wesleyan.”
On February 21, 2015, Kramer provided Molly to lower-level sellers, who sold the products to 11 people, 10 of which were Wesleyan students. All 11 people overdosed on the substance, which they though was MDMA, and were transported to the hospital. Two of the students were in critical condition, and one of those students had to be revived after his heart stopped.
After that event, law enforcement officers seized the substance and sent it to a toxicology laboratory for testing. Laboratory analysis confirmed that the powdered substance contained AB Fubinaca.
Lonergan pleaded guilty to the same charge as Kramer in November 2015, an will be sentenced this June.
