United States v. Philip Chris Radlick, United States of America v. George Henry Willers

Appellants were convicted, after jury trial, of conspiracy to manufacture phencycli-dine (PCP) in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841 (a)(1) and 846.

In December, 1975, California narcotics agents were alerted by officials of & San Luis Obispo chemical company tliat appellant Radlick had telephoned to/place an order for 510 kilograms (about 1420 pounds) of piperidine, a precursor ou PCP. The officials had known Radlick when he was a chemistry professor at a California university and they knew that he had resigned that post to take a position with a large pharmaceutical firm in New Jersey, where he presumably could have obtained the piperidine with less expense and less delay. Their suspicions were aroused When he changed his story about his reasons for ordering it from California, and when he instructed that “his people” (whom he\would not identify) would pick it up, but they were to sign no documents for it. Radlick was. told that the piperidine would be ordered from the East and shipped to San Luis Obispo via Los Angeles, and that he could take delivery in Los Angeles. He instructed that his people would pick it up in San Luis Obispo.

Appellant Willers and his sister arrived in San…