Toxicology Reports Show Same Controlled Substances in Two Ole Miss Students Found Dead, Court Records Say

Federal court records obtained by News Media show that the same three substances were detected in the bloodstreams of two University of Mississippi students who recently died.

Toxicology reports cited in a court filing say Ole Miss students Aidan Hamilton, 18, and Robert Strang, 20, had mitrogynine, along with the Schedule 1 controlled substances MGM-15 and MGPI, in their systems. News Media reviewed the reports.

The findings were disclosed before the complete toxicology report is publicly released.

According to the court filing, all three substances are ingredients in Smax-Mango Breeze pills. Investigators determined that Hamilton and Strang possessed the pills when they died Sept. 21 in Oxford, Mississippi.

“During the investigations, packaging associated with kratom-related products was discovered at both locations,” Lafayette County Metro Narcotics said in a statement issued in September.

At both locations, officers found Smax Mango Breeze MGM-15 packages marked with a $39.99 price tag. Each package also bore a black smudge over the first 9 in the price.

Yahya Mohamed Mosleh, 51, and his 18-year-old son, Islam Mohamed Mosleh, were arrested in connection with a narcotics investigation involving Puffs Vape, Tobacco and Beer Store in Oxford.

Federal prosecutors charged the men with drug offenses after investigators allegedly traced purchases made by Strang and Hamilton at the store before their deaths, court records show.

Court records say agents later made a controlled purchase from Yahya Mosleh. Prosecutors allege he sold them a product stored inside a locked container—one the documents say “had been banned by local ordinance for more than 4 years.”

Agents obtained a search warrant soon after the purchase and searched the store. There, they reportedly found “the same Smax Mango Breeze MGM-15 – with the exact same packaging, exact same ingredients and exact same price tag, of $39.99 with a smudge on the 9.”

Laboratory testing determined that the products contained the Schedule 1 substances MGM-15 and MGPI, according to the filing. Bank records also show that Strang and Hamilton each bought products at Puffs on the same day.

“There is also probable cause to believe these drugs caused two overdose deaths in Oxford, Mississippi,” the court documents state. “The Government proved that there was probable cause that the laboratory-tested drugs taken by the two overdose victims were the same type of drugs that were seized from the Moslehs during a court-authorized search warrant.”

The filing says Yahya Mosleh sold the products to a confidential informant after Strang and Hamilton died. During the transaction, he allegedly warned the informant that people had been dying after using similar products.

“As the purchase was being made, Yahya Mosleh even told the informant that people were dying from similar products and to be careful,” the report states. He allegedly tried to hide the sale when other customers entered the store, completing the transaction only after they left.

Yahya Mosleh will remain jailed while awaiting trial after a federal judge determined that he posed a flight risk because of ties to another country, according to the court records.

Islam Mosleh is set to be released on a $20,000 unsecured bond. His conditions include a curfew and electronic location monitoring, the documents say.

The owner of Puffs was previously indicted by a Lafayette County, Mississippi, state grand jury on a charge of distributing a controlled substance. He later absconded, and investigators believe he now operates the store remotely from Egypt, according to the court filing.

News Media contacted the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi for comment.