The Washoe County district attorney’s office will drop four out of five charges against a University of Nevada, Reno student who police say was found manufacturing a rare narcotic in his dorm room in April, the student’s lawyer said Tuesday.

Court documents show that UNR Police Services discovered 18-year-old Sean Sullivan making dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, in his room in Juniper Hall in April.

Sullivan was charged with manufacturing, possessing and trafficking a Schedule I narcotic, all felonies, and with the misdemeanors of possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia, said Scott Freeman, his lawyer. But after negotiations outside the courtroom, the DA’s office dropped all charges but possession.

“There was a recognition that this was his first offense,” Freeman said.

While the documents didn’t indicate any evidence of Sullivan trafficking the DMT, Todd Renwick, commander of UNR Police Services, said the quantity of the drug the officers found in the student’s room warranted the charge. Sullivan was in possession of about one pound of the drug, according to the report.

The student will go through a court-operated drug education program in lieu of being convicted of the possession charge, Freeman said. Freeman didn’t specify which drug program the student will attend.
DMT is a hallucinogen local police rarely see, said Deputy District Attorney Diane Drinkwater, who represented the district attorney’s office in the case.

Sullivan told officers he had ordered the necessary ingredients to make the drug through the Internet and was mixing it with marijuana to smoke, the documents said. The student said he knew the drug was illegal but was unaware it was a Schedule I narcotic, the report showed.

Schedule I drugs are available for research only and have no approved medical use, according to the federal government.

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Fools like this 18 year old are really a problem for the face of DMT.
I think they found 1 pound of MHRB, because I'm pretty sure no one can make 1 pounds of DMT inside dorm room. Ridiculous.

Why, what did he do wrong? Doesn't seem to be reason to assume he was doing any harm... poor guy just got caught.

Yea, it was most likely MHRB

As to what he did wrong...extracting in a dorm room is dumb, imo. You don't own the property, you're not leasing the property...in fact, the property belongs to the university and can be searched on a whim, meaning you have no protection. If you can't find a place to do it off-campus, waiting a year or two to get your own spot makes much more sense to me than risking your freedom for a taste of DMT.

anyways, scare the shit outa me.. if i get caught in mexico, im done.

A fool is a fool, no need to explain here further.

Wow they really let him off easy, lucky guy. It would be nice to see this kinda of thing happening more often. Don't really want to see people getting caught but when it does happen it'd be nice to see more cases turn out like this.

Holy shit. I know this guys attorney, went to school with one of his kids. Had no idea he was a drug offense lawyer though.

He probably said something like that the use was for his own and it was for "spiritual purposes" or something. Anyway if he had only one pound of MHRB(mistaken for DMT), he would not make much of it.
Still a fool.

Doubtful...this would provide you with about zero protection.

And a pound of bark means he could have had between 4-9 grams of DMT when he was done...for a substance where the dose range is commonly considered to be from 15-50mg, that's quite a bit...like 80-180 doses (conservatively).

totally agreed , he should have been more careful

In cases like these I'm always very interested in HOW he was caught? Did someone turn him in? Dorm inspections? Was he using the campus network to buy the MHRB and someone on the campus network team turned him in?

My guess would be someone dimed on him, perhaps out of malice or more likely to save themselves from a minor charge of pot possession. No doubt it was entirely banal and wholly avoidable had he taken proper precautions.

Slightly heartening to see the justice system elected not to ruin a young man's life over this crap.