"Max Osterman was 18 when he connected with a drug dealer on Snapchat who used the handle skyhigh.303. Max would message him whenever he wanted to buy Percocet, and they would meet. After about a year, and just days after their last exchange, Max collapsed. The pills he ordered had been laced with fentanyl. He died from the overdose in February 2021 at his home in Broomfield, Colorado. The dealer continued selling prescription painkillers until 2023, when he was jailed on two drug distribution convictions."
"Snapchat never gave this critical evidence, never took action, never stopped the dealer who had been selling drugs on their platform for years before Max's death and even after, said Kim Osterman, his mother. It took three separate requests from law enforcement for Snapchat to even respond, and when they did, they claimed there was no information. A police report reviewed by the Guardian shows a delay in obtaining data from the dealer's Snapchat account,"
Max Osterman died in February 2021 at 18 after taking Percocet laced with fentanyl that he bought from a Snapchat dealer using handle skyhigh.303. The dealer continued selling prescription painkillers until 2023, when he was jailed on two drug distribution convictions; a judge said he was responsible for four deaths but he was never charged for supplying Max's pills. Snapchat delayed responding to law enforcement and initially refused a records request, citing an ambiguous slash in the order. Snapchat eventually provided the dealer's account data after multiple warrants but did not supply content from Max's account, hindering investigators' ability to definitively link the dealer to Max's death.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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