New Orleans police charged Robert J. Brunet, 37, with conspiracy to violate a federal law that makes it a crime to make a building available for the use of illegal drugs. His brother, Brian Brunet, 33, was charged along with James Estopinal, 32, on one count of violating the law.

According to George Cazenavette, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's New Orleans office, more than 400 overdoses could be connected to raves held periodically from 1995 through August 2000.

"In my time as a prosecutor this is one of the most unconscionable drug violations I have seen," said U.S. Attorney Eddie Jordan. "They used these raves to exploit young people by designing them for pervasive drug abuse."

Federal prosecutors from throughout the United States have asked Jordan for a copy of the New Orleans case so they can use the same strategies to crackdown on rave organizers in their districts.

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