r.k .,: Shamo and Trafficking Hundreds

r.k .,: Prosecutors have alleged that dozens of the ring's customers died in overdoses, though the defense disputes that and Shamo is charged only in connection to one a 21-year-old identified as R.K., who died in June 2016 after snorting fentanyl allegedly passed off as prescription oxycodone, according to The Japan Times. Shamo's family, though, said he's been singled out even as deeply involved friends are offered more lenient plea deals. Former Eagle Scout Aaron Shamo, 29, will stand trial beginning Monday on allegations that he and a small group of fellow millennials ran a multimillion-dollar empire from the basement of his suburban Salt Lake City home by trafficking hundreds of thousands of pills containing fentanyl, the potent synthetic opioid that has exacerbated the country's overdose epidemic in recent years. ; The federal government's case is expected to offer a glimpse at how the drug, which has killed tens of thousands of Americans, can be imported from China, pressed into fake pills and sold through online black markets to people in every state. His father, Mike Shamo, said his son was a chess whiz as a kid who experimented with marijuana in his teen years, but later earned his Eagle Scout badge crocheting blankets for a hospital. He was brought in and saw the opportunity for making money, and he didn't truly understand the danger behind what he was doing, how dangerous the drugs were, he said. Aaron Shamo became an internet-savvy aspiring entrepreneur and health-conscious workout buff who loved self-improvement books like The Secret and had dreams of starting his own tech-support business, Mike Shamo told The Associated Press. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.