rfgdxm/Robert F. Golaszewski
09-21-2007, 10:03 PM
Who would do business as Ennuitech???
http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030729busted0729p3.asp
CMU student tied to drug probe
DEA links online supplier to large-scale federal case
Tuesday, July 29, 2003
By Jonathan D. Silver, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
A Carnegie Mellon University student arrested recently at Pittsburgh
International Airport for drug possession has become embroiled in what
court papers describe as a "large-scale" federal drug investigation
spanning the nation.
An attorney for 20-year-old Mark Parraway, however, said the arrest
could be a "very big foul-up" and claimed his client was transporting
legal substances as part of a legitimate business.
A preliminary hearing yesterday for Parraway before North Fayette
District Justice Anthony Saveikis was postponed until Sept. 8. Assistant
District Attorney Ken Fryncko requested the delay to give Allegheny
County's Crime Lab time to analyze the substances seized from Parraway's
luggage July 17.
Parraway was on the way to visit his grandparents in Raleigh, N.C., when
he was stopped after a Transportation Security Administration employee
screening checked baggage found a white powder in Parraway's bag that
burned her hand.
Allegheny County police arrested Parraway at the airport after the
powder tested positive for the drug known as Ecstasy.
A further search of Parraway's luggage yielded a plastic bag weighing
790 grams containing suspected Ecstasy, according to a field test by a
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent.
Further field tests by that agent showed several other bags contained a
total of 10 grams of suspected cocaine, and a third bag with "alien head
markings" contained 1 gram of suspected methamphetamine.
Also confiscated were several empty baggies and a digital scale.
Police charged Parraway with three counts of drug possession, two counts
of drug possession with intent to deliver and possession of drug
paraphernalia.
After the arrest, detectives obtained a search warrant for Parraway's
Theta Xi fraternity house on Morewood Avenue in Oakland.
They said they seized three bottles of unknown pills, a laptop computer,
two computer towers and miscellaneous paperwork.
The affidavit supporting the request for a search warrant cited a DEA
chemist as saying "he is aware of a large-scale nationwide investigation
involving one of the companies that Parraway admitted was his source of
supply."
That company is not named in court documents.
Parraway told police that through an online company, Ennuitech, he buys
large quantities of a substance called dextromethorphan, repackages it
and sells it.
"Our position is this is legitimate business," Parraway's attorney,
William Krzton, said. "At the end of the day, this could be a very big
foul-up."
Krzton was short on details about Parraway's clients and suppliers, but
said of the substances in Parraway's bag:
"They test positive under field-test conditions. They will not test
positive under laboratory conditions."
Parraway's bag contained Express Mail labels sent from Ennuitech to
several out-of-town addresses, including one in Bakersfield, Calif.,
where there had been "methamphetamine activity" in the past, according
to the search warrant affidavit.
Parraway, who was enrolled at Carnegie Mellon in the spring but has not
yet signed up for the fall semester, is being held in the Allegheny
County Jail on $25,000 straight bond.
http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030729busted0729p3.asp
CMU student tied to drug probe
DEA links online supplier to large-scale federal case
Tuesday, July 29, 2003
By Jonathan D. Silver, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
A Carnegie Mellon University student arrested recently at Pittsburgh
International Airport for drug possession has become embroiled in what
court papers describe as a "large-scale" federal drug investigation
spanning the nation.
An attorney for 20-year-old Mark Parraway, however, said the arrest
could be a "very big foul-up" and claimed his client was transporting
legal substances as part of a legitimate business.
A preliminary hearing yesterday for Parraway before North Fayette
District Justice Anthony Saveikis was postponed until Sept. 8. Assistant
District Attorney Ken Fryncko requested the delay to give Allegheny
County's Crime Lab time to analyze the substances seized from Parraway's
luggage July 17.
Parraway was on the way to visit his grandparents in Raleigh, N.C., when
he was stopped after a Transportation Security Administration employee
screening checked baggage found a white powder in Parraway's bag that
burned her hand.
Allegheny County police arrested Parraway at the airport after the
powder tested positive for the drug known as Ecstasy.
A further search of Parraway's luggage yielded a plastic bag weighing
790 grams containing suspected Ecstasy, according to a field test by a
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent.
Further field tests by that agent showed several other bags contained a
total of 10 grams of suspected cocaine, and a third bag with "alien head
markings" contained 1 gram of suspected methamphetamine.
Also confiscated were several empty baggies and a digital scale.
Police charged Parraway with three counts of drug possession, two counts
of drug possession with intent to deliver and possession of drug
paraphernalia.
After the arrest, detectives obtained a search warrant for Parraway's
Theta Xi fraternity house on Morewood Avenue in Oakland.
They said they seized three bottles of unknown pills, a laptop computer,
two computer towers and miscellaneous paperwork.
The affidavit supporting the request for a search warrant cited a DEA
chemist as saying "he is aware of a large-scale nationwide investigation
involving one of the companies that Parraway admitted was his source of
supply."
That company is not named in court documents.
Parraway told police that through an online company, Ennuitech, he buys
large quantities of a substance called dextromethorphan, repackages it
and sells it.
"Our position is this is legitimate business," Parraway's attorney,
William Krzton, said. "At the end of the day, this could be a very big
foul-up."
Krzton was short on details about Parraway's clients and suppliers, but
said of the substances in Parraway's bag:
"They test positive under field-test conditions. They will not test
positive under laboratory conditions."
Parraway's bag contained Express Mail labels sent from Ennuitech to
several out-of-town addresses, including one in Bakersfield, Calif.,
where there had been "methamphetamine activity" in the past, according
to the search warrant affidavit.
Parraway, who was enrolled at Carnegie Mellon in the spring but has not
yet signed up for the fall semester, is being held in the Allegheny
County Jail on $25,000 straight bond.