Justice was served in the sentencing on Friday of a man who sold hallucinogens to a 15-year-old boy in Boulder last year. The teen ingested the drugs, climbed a crane at a construction site in his altered state of mind, and fell 145 feet to his death. Every parent’s nightmare.
Benjamin Harmon, 25, certainly got what he deserved from Boulder District Judge Dea Lindsey — 35 years in prison — after pleading guilty to two counts of distribution of a controlled substance to a minor, sexual exploitation of a minor and attempt to commit money laundering.
The original case against him before his plea agreement was even worse. Authorities had located 19 other minors who bought drugs from Harmon, including one whom Harmon sexually assaulted, and one from which Harmon obtained child sexual abuse materials, according to the 20th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. A grand jury eventually indicted Harmon on 40 counts, including 21 drug felonies for distributing psilocybin to minors and sexual assault on a child…