Alleged 2C-B dealer makes first court appearance
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The 19-year-old Prince Albert man accused of dealing a synthetic drug that landed six people in hospital made his first appearance this afternoon in provincial court.
Douglas Jean Neufeld did not speak during his brief appearance and stood in the gallery flanked by family members as his lawyer, Peter Abrametz, made two requests on his behalf. Abrametz asked for the case to be adjourned to a later date because the investigation into his client is still ongoing, and asked for Neufeld’s undertaking to be amended to allow him to use the Internet for the purposes of school or work. Judge Hugh Harradence granted both requests.
According to the Feb. 21 police report, officers were called to a residence to assist paramedics with an overdose. When they arrived, emergency workers discovered six people suffering drug overdose symptoms. They were taken to hospital for treatment, and police immediately began an investigation.
The day after the overdoses, city police and RCMP officers from Prince Albert’s Integrated Street Enforcement Team raided a home on 11th St. E and seized “a quantity of unknown substances.” One of the seized drugs was later identified as the psychedelic party drug 2C-B, which Prince Albert Police Service had never encountered before.
