跨国贩毒组织15人在华盛顿被追加起诉：冰毒源自加州、GBL自韩国进口，累计缴获逾87公斤冰毒
美国司法部哥伦比亚特区联邦检察官办公室10月28日宣布，一份包含12项罪名的替代起诉书在华盛顿联邦法院解封，15名被告被控参与一个跨国贩毒组织：该组织从加州取得冰毒、从韩国进口GBL（γ-丁内酯），在华盛顿与美国东海岸多地分销。其中4名新被告于10月27日被捕，执法人员在华盛顿与宾夕法尼亚州东区执行搜查时缴获约13磅冰毒、约1.5磅GBL、摇头丸与逾1.6万美元现金。
新增的4名被告为Joseph Micha Macias（47岁）、Jason Andrew Frasher（52岁）、Peter Allan Rothberg（42岁），三人均为华盛顿居民，以及绰号「Duce」「Deuce」的Rassoul Amall Martin-Wilson（40岁），为Philadelphia居民。四人被控合谋分销500克以上含冰毒混合物与50克以上纯冰毒，Rothberg另被控合谋分销GBL，Macias另涉五项持有并意图分销罪名。Martin-Wilson已于10月27日被宾夕法尼亚州东区法官Craig M. Straw下令还押候审，其余三人定于10月28日在华盛顿地方法官Zia M. Faruqui面前首次出庭。此前起诉的另11名被告已于今年4月底至5月初陆续被捕，其中8人被下令羁押候审。
检方表示，整个调查累计缴获逾87公斤高纯度冰毒、逾800公斤GBL（美国境内）与逾57公斤氯胺酮等毒品。美国检察官与探员曾前往韩国Seoul，与韩国执法部门合作追查GBL出口源头，韩国当局逮捕了5名韩国籍人员，并于2025年9月缴获约1.5公吨GBL；检方称，这是韩国有记录以来最大宗的受控物质查获。
法庭文件显示，该网络自至少2022年11月运作至今，沿东北走廊在New York、Philadelphia、Baltimore与华盛顿之间多层分销，并一度向Chicago、Florida与南加州扩张。上游供货者批量采购毒品，区域分销者仓储、重新包装与转运，下游分销者向顾客出售并收取、藏匿毒资；成员以加密通讯应用、暗语、商业快递、藏毒点与空壳公司掩护运作，毒资经点对点支付平台收取，再通过商业账户洗白成看似合法的收入。首席法官James E. Boasberg主审此案，案号为26cr94；另有一名Gregory Wallace经刑事诉状被另案指控。
检方介绍，GBL本是油漆去除剂、黏合剂与指甲油去除剂等工业溶剂，被非法供人服用时属一级受控物质：人体会迅速将其代谢为GHB，即最常见的迷奸药物之一，安全剂量窗口极窄，剂量稍增即可致意识丧失、癫痫、心率减慢、严重呼吸抑制、昏迷甚至死亡。该组织将冰毒与GBL搭配成派对毒品组合「sexchem」一同出售，检方称这一组合致命且效果不可预测；新加入的被告是华盛顿境内的冰毒批量分销者，其中Martin-Wilson在今年初第一轮起诉与搜捕之后成为主要供货来源。
联邦检察官Jeanine Ferris Pirro表示：「这个组织贩卖冰毒与GBL的致命组合，为牟利置人命于险境。他们用加密应用、空壳公司与美国邮政来藏匿运作——没有用。」她说，其办公室与国土安全工作组已累计缴获逾1,800磅冰毒。缉毒局（DEA）华盛顿分局、国税局刑事调查局（IRS-CI）、国土安全调查局（HSI）等机构参与调查，助理联邦检察官Matthew W. Kinskey、George P. Eliopoulos与Solomon S. Eppel负责起诉。全部被告若罪名成立，将面临10年至终身监禁的强制最低刑。起诉书仅为指控，全部被告在法庭证明有罪之前均推定无罪。
Fifteen Charged in Superseding Indictment Targeting Transnational Methamphetamine and GBL Trafficking Organization in Washington, D.C.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia announced on October 28 that a 12-count superseding indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court in Washington charges 15 defendants in connection with a transnational drug trafficking organization that imported massive quantities of methamphetamine from California and gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) from South Korea for distribution in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere along the East Coast. Four of the alleged traffickers were arrested on October 27 as law enforcement executed search warrants across the District of Columbia and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, recovering approximately 13 pounds of methamphetamine, about 1.5 pounds of GBL, additional narcotics including ecstasy pills, and more than $16,000 in cash.
The superseding indictment charges four new defendants: Joseph Micha Macias, 47; Jason Andrew Frasher, 52; and Peter Allan Rothberg, 42, each of the District; and Rassoul Amall Martin-Wilson, also known as 'Duce' and 'Deuce,' 40, of Philadelphia. Each is charged with conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture containing methamphetamine and 50 grams or more of pure methamphetamine; Rothberg is additionally charged with conspiracy to distribute GBL, and Macias faces five additional counts of possession with intent to distribute. On October 27, Martin-Wilson was ordered detained pending trial by Judge Craig M. Straw of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, while Macias, Frasher and Rothberg were set for initial appearances in the District of Columbia before Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui on October 28. The eleven other defendants previously charged in the case were arrested in late April and early May 2026, and eight of the eleven were ordered detained.
In aggregate, over the course of the investigation, law enforcement has seized more than 87 kilograms of high-purity methamphetamine, more than 800 kilograms of GBL in the United States, and more than 57 kilograms of ketamine and additional narcotics. Working with South Korean law enforcement, U.S. prosecutors and agents traveled to Seoul to identify GBL exporters and disrupt the supply chain at its source; that cooperation resulted in the arrest of five South Korean nationals by South Korean authorities and, in September 2025, the seizure of approximately 1.5 metric tons of GBL, the largest domestic seizure of a controlled substance ever recorded in South Korea.
According to court documents, from at least November 2022 through the present, the defendants operated a multi-layered trafficking network stretching along the Northeast Corridor from New York City to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., with active expansion efforts into Chicago, Florida and Southern California. Upstream suppliers sourced narcotics in bulk, regional distributors stored, repackaged and moved product, and downstream distributors sold to customers while collecting and concealing proceeds; members used encrypted messaging applications, coded language, commercial parcel services, stash locations and shell business entities, accepted payments through peer-to-peer platforms, and laundered funds through business accounts designed to disguise the proceeds as legitimate income. Chief Judge James E. Boasberg is presiding over the case, docket 26cr94; Gregory Wallace is separately charged by complaint with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and GBL and with a firearms offense.
GBL is an industrial solvent with legitimate commercial uses as a paint remover, adhesive and nail polish remover, but when illegally sold for human use it is a Schedule I controlled substance: the body rapidly metabolizes GBL into GHB, one of the most pervasive date-rape drugs, and GBL has a dangerously narrow safety margin in which a small increase in dosage can produce unconsciousness, seizures, slowed heart rate, severe respiratory depression, coma or death. The organization distributed methamphetamine and GBL together for simultaneous consumption in a poly-drug combination known as 'sexchem,' which prosecutors describe as lethal and unpredictable; the newly added defendants were bulk distributors of methamphetamine within the District of Columbia, with Martin-Wilson serving as a primary source of supply after the initial indictment and coordinated search and arrest operation earlier this year.
'This organization peddled a deadly combination of meth and GBL, putting lives at risk for profit. They used encrypted apps, shell companies, and the U.S. mail to hide their operation. It didn't work,' said U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro, noting that her office, alongside the Homeland Security Task Force, has seized more than 1,800 pounds of meth since her appointment. The investigation is being conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration's Washington Division, IRS Criminal Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations and partner agencies, and the case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Matthew W. Kinskey, George P. Eliopoulos and Solomon S. Eppel. All defendants face mandatory minimum sentences of 10 years to life in prison if convicted. An indictment is merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
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图片来源：图：位于华盛顿的E. Barrett Prettyman联邦法院大楼正门，门楣全名可辨，本案替代起诉书在此解封（资料图）。图片来源：Tony Webster摄，CC BY 2.0，经Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The entrance facade of the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington, D.C., where the superseding indictment was unsealed. Photo by Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
