A former US Army soldier was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison on Thursday for supplying a lethal dose of the party drug Molly to a young woman at an electric zoo concert in 2018.
At a remote sentencing hearing in Manhattan federal court, drug dealer Lagaria Sloter broke down as she apologized for poisoning 20-year-old Katherine Schlegel at an electric concert on Randall Island.
“I want the family and friends of the victim to know that the person I came back with is not who I am, but a selfish and inconsiderate child that I shouldn’t have been,” she gathered herself. Said after stopping to.
Slaughter, a specialist in the military who was forced out after his arrest, said he had been diagnosed with “bipolar depression” but found work in a care home because he was free from duty.
“I spent the rest of my military career trapped inside my depression as I tried to cope with the events she had committed,” he said.
Sloter, who was stationed at Fort Drum in New York’s apartment in 2018, traveled to the city on the weekend of the festival with another soldier, who arranged for Gigel to purchase 57 Molly pills to use with Szell and his friend .
Schlegel – a college student from New Cannon, Conn., Who was not a regular drug user – was hospitalized in New York City two days later and died.
Her mother, Elena Schlegel, said she is devastated by her daughter’s premature death when sentenced.
“I will be haunted forever, just thinking about her, stuck in her last moments. Was she scared? Was she conscious? Was she thinking where I was?” She said.
“Our daughter was the most beautiful, loving, young woman you could ever know. He loved going to concerts. He loved music. She was not a regular drug user, ”he said.
Authorities said before his arrest, he searched for Slaughter Barrack, recovered 10 capsules of Molly, 55 doses of LSD, psychedelic mushrooms, a scale and other drug-packaging paraphernalia.
He will be required to turn himself in at the federal prison facility in April, the judge ordered on Thursday.
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