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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Victoria Bekiempis

Penn State students accused of running cocaine-trafficking ring at fraternity houses

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Students gather outside Old Main on the Penn State University main campus in State College, Pennsylvania, on 24 March 2023. Photograph: Gene J Puskar/AP

More than a dozen Penn State University students ran a cocaine-trafficking ring that cut and packaged the potent drug mainly at two fraternity houses, authorities said on Monday.

The Pennsylvania attorney general, Dave Sunday, announced charges on Monday against 14 people linked to the purported operation, saying it involved “primarily college students and two fraternities”. The drugs were “distributed mainly to Penn State … students”, Sunday’s office contended in statements that caused waves far beyond the research university’s campus community.

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