Herkimer County Man Sentenced to Prison for Possessing and Intending to Distribute “Bath Salts”

ALBANY, NEW YORK – Jordan Burks, a/k/a Justin Burts, age 32, of Ilion, New York, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for possessing a drug, sometimes marketed as “bath salts,” with the intent to distribute it. United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Matthew Scarpino, Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations, made the announcement. 

On January 12, 2022, federal agents executed a search warrant at Burks’s home and recovered about 454 grams of alpha-Pyrrolidinohexiophenone, three digital scales, and $19,393 in cash.  In the weeks leading up to the execution of the search warrant, agents seized five packages of alpha-Pyrrolidinohexiophenone—one of which contained more than a quarter-kilogram of the drug—bound for Burks’ home.  Burks admitted that he intended to distribute the “bath salts.”

United States District Judge Glenn T. Suddaby also imposed 3 years of post-release supervision.   

HSI investigated the case, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan S. Reiner prosecuted it.