'21 hardened drug dealers': Feds charge students at UNC, Duke, App State with dealing

[TexasTowelie]

Nearly two dozen people, including current and former students at UNC, Duke and Appalachian State universities, have been charged in connection with the investigation of a large-scale drug ring, local and federal law enforcement officials announced Thursday.

Many of the 21 people charged were connected with the Phi Gamma Delta, Kappa Sigma and Beta Theta Pi fraternal organizations, officials said. The investigation is continuing, and more charges are possible.

Thursday’s news conference was held “to save lives,” said Matthew G.T. Martin, U.S. attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, who was joined at a news conference by Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood and other law enforcement officials.

“I want to make this clear,” Martin said outside the Sheriff’s Office in Hillsborough. “This was not the situation where you have single users — a 19-year-old sipping a beer or you have someone who is taking a puff of a joint on the back porch of a frat house. These are 21 hardened drug dealers.”

Read more: https://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/crime/article247912825.html
(Durham Herald Sun)

[underpants]

1. Frat boys no less

Probably easy for them to move without much fear of getting caught on a fluke.

[bluedigger]

2. I would not have called any of my college dealers "hardened" back in the day.

Not even the guys dealing acid.

[steventh]

3. Some serious amounts and types of drugs are alleged

According to the Herald Sun article, "The investigation revealed that the drug ring moved thousands of pounds of marijuana, several hundred kilograms of cocaine, LSD, Molly (MDMA), mushrooms, steroids, human growth hormones, Xanax and other narcotics through 'very sophisticated methods.'"