PLACENTIA : Man Admits Selling Flasks to Make Drug
The former manager of a Placentia chemical supply company pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Santa Ana to a charge that he sold glassware used for the manufacture of illegal methamphetamine to undercover officers.
Timothy M. Schultz, 32, of Westminster, who worked for Chem Lab Supply, admitted before U.S. District Judge Alicemarie Stotler that he supplied two triple-neck flasks last summer to members of a sting operation.
In exchange for his plea, Assistant U.S. Atty. Edward R. McGah Jr., the prosecutor, agreed to drop two other charges alleging that Schultz supplied agents with 15 gallons of hydrotic acid, a necessary ingredient for methamphetamine. Schultz, however, admitted during his plea that he provided 15 gallons of the chemical worth about $4,500.
A charge of knowingly supplying glassware to make methamphetamine carries a maximum penalty of four years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Stotler is scheduled to sentence Schultz on June 18.
Chem Lab, which also has a retail outlet in Hawthorne in Los Angeles County, was not indicted in the scheme. Marshall Glick, the company’s lawyer, has denied any wrongdoing by Chem Lab and said that Schultz has been suspended from his job.
Agents from the state Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration arrested Schultz in October after purchasing the flasks and hydrotic acid from him at Chem Lab’s Placentia operation.
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