FBI Now Investigating Julieta Yoselin Disappearance
More details about the crime have been released and the FBI is now assisting local authorities in trying to bring Julieta home. They are sure Julieta is with 26-year-old “Jesus” Lozada but they aren’t sure if she went willingly. Lozada was a friend of the family and police found that he had packed up all his belonging and fled when they went to interview him.
An arrest warrant has been filed for Lozada and police believe that right now Lozada might be in the Atlanta area. If you see them please call 1-888-CRIME-SC:
“Strange Man” Following College Girls Around at Clemson
Three different women called authorities when a man in a red or maroon pick up followed them. No one knows what he’s up to so I suggest women arm themselves (I suggest bear spray, it’s hotter than regular pepper spray and made to spray at longer distances) and remember this simply plan.
Never go anywhere with a assailant, no matter what. Even if they have a gun stay where you are and do not comply with demands to go anywhere else. In those cases he’s taking you to what’s called a secondary crime scene but you can just think of as where you’ll be raped and murdered. If he shoots or stabs you on the street you may survive. If you go with him to the woods or wherever he’s comfortable you definitely won’t.
Be careful out there ladies.
Clemson Researcher John Huffman: Smoking K2 is Like Competing for The Darwin Award
The Darwin Awards are perhaps one of the most tasteless Internet memes, which explains the popularity of the idea. In a nutshell, the meme goes something like this: person does something stupid, dies in the process, and 30-year-old World of Warcraft nerds who spend their free time trolling Internet forums all laugh as they finally find someone they think they’re actually superior to. I’ve always found the glee at others’ misfortune to be fairly vile, but the term actually can come in handy when describing a risky and foolish behavior.
Like smoking a synthetic marijuana substitute you know nothing about but the creator of which claims is too dangerous to ingest recreationally.
John Huffman, the creator of the substance now being sold to your children in head shops by people who don’t care whether your kids live or die has been in the news recently trying to convince the morons that have been smoking his synthetic cannabinoid that they are putting themselves in danger:
“It’s like playing Russian roulette. You don’t know what it’s going to do to you,” Huffman said. “You’re a potential winner of a Darwin award,” referring to the tongue-in-cheek awards given to people who “do a service to humanity by removing themselves from the gene pool.”
In addition to the compound being made without strict quality control or any regulation, as far as anyone knows, the compound itself has never been tested on humans. And when it was tested on mice, Huffman said, the animals were euthanized at the end of the experiment, so scientists don’t even know how it affects mice long-term. “And mice are not humans,” Huffman said.
Doesn’t sound like the kind of thing you want in your body. So what is K2 anyway?
This K2 compound was first created in the mid-1990s in the lab of organic chemist John W. Huffman of Clemson University, who studies cannabinoid receptors. He’s not sure how the recipe for what is named JWH-018 (his initials) got picked up, but he did publish details on a series of compounds including JWH-018 in a book chapter. Even before that book came out, he recalls learning that in China and Korea people were selling the compound as a plant growth stimulant.
As for where it was first smoked or used as a recreational drug, Huffman thinks perhaps somewhere in Europe.
“Apparently somebody picked it up, I think in Europe, on the idea of doping this incense mixture with the compound and smoking it,” Huffman told LiveScience. “You can get very high on it. It’s about 10 times more active than THC,” the active ingredient in marijuana.
From a chemist’s perspective, that means K2 has an affinity for the cannabinoid brain receptor (CB1) that’s about 10 times greater than THC. For the less chemically inclined, it means you can smoke a lot less K2 to get just as high.
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Since JWH-018 or K2 acts like marijuana, you’d expect to see the same effects, including sleepiness, relaxation, reduced blood pressure, and at high doses, hallucinations and delusions.
While some patients between the ages of 14 and 21 were showing up with hallucinations, other symptoms, such as increased agitation and elevated blood pressure and heart rates, didn’t match up with marijuana.
(Dr. Anthony) Scalza speculates either another compound is responsible for the nasty side effects, or the concentration of JWH-018 is too high.
Unfortunately we won’t know anytime soon because Dr. Scalza, a professor of toxicology studying an epidemic of emergency room visits by K2 users, is having trouble getting said stoners to consent to having their urine and blood examined.
Huffman has another interview in The Greenville News that has more in depth information on the dangers of this fake pot. Smoke it at your own risk.
Clemson Student Kidnapped and Assaulted by University of Georgia Fraternity?
The victim, and maybe everyone else involved, was drunk enough that we may never know the exact details of this case. It seems a Clemson student was involved in a drunken brawl near the U of G campus and was subsequently forced into the frat house where he was held against his will and assaulted. He escaped around 3:30 a.m. and flagged down a passing police cruiser.
From Fox Carolina:
According to an incident report, an officer saw Stephen Spaseff run into the road in front of the frat house. The report said that Spaseff was yelling for someone to help him. Spaseff was crying and appeared to be very intoxicated and incoherent, the report said. It said Spaseff had multiple cuts and a swollen right eye and his clothes were wet and dirty.
Police said that Spaseff told investigators some people “messed him up.”
A representative from the University of Georgia said that details as to what exactly happened and where Spaseff was injured are not clear.
“There was a fight outside a bar downtown around 2:30 a.m.,” said the representative. “A young man ran into the street in front of the Chi Phi fraternity house seeking help because he was injured as to where the fight occurred and where the injuries occurred. That’s all part of the police investigation.”
According to the police report, Spaseff said that after an altercation at the Roadhouse Bar downtown, he was held against his will in the basement of the Chi Phi fraternity hall, where he was not allowed to leave and was physically assaulted.
There’s a video report from Fox here.
WYFF has a report that indicates that although the Clemson student was physically battered, he refused hospitalization.
Greenville County residents are no doubt familiar with the drinking and drugging culture of the college age (and unfortunately older) adults in our area. This story illustrates the kinds of problems binge drinking young men can cause in a community.
Clemson University Police Charge Joshuoa Quenton Black in Home Invasion Robbery
From The Easley Progress:
CLEMSON — Clemson University police charged a man with armed robbery and first-degree burglary in connection with an incident early Tuesday at Lightsey Bridge apartments.
Joshuoa Quenton Black, 21, of Clemson was arrested Wednesday during a joint investigation by university police and the City of Clemson Police Department. He was being held at the Clemson city jail pending a bond hearing. Black is not a Clemson student.
Two Clemson students told police they were robbed in their apartment at 12:45 a.m. Tuesday by two men. They said one of the men had a handgun.
The robbers took a small safe, a television, an iPhone and credit and debit cards, police said.
Lightsey Bridge apartments are student residences located on the Clemson campus.
Police do not believe the robbery was a random act and are continuing to investigate and look for the second suspect.
“Not a random act” as in drug deal gone south no doubt. I remember about a decade ago NYU students were being warned not to let “friends” from the area into their dorms after a rape and several robberies. These “friends” were local dealers delivering weed and other drugs, and taking advantage of the naive and unprepared kids who think letting some hood from the street into their building is a great idea.
Tell your kids about stories like this before they go to college.