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96 Arrested in San Diego State Drug Bust

Posted May 6, 08 5:09 PM CDT in US,  Crime & Courts 

(Newser) – Ninety-six people were arrested today in a massive drug bust at San Diego State University. Seventy-five of those nabbed were students, many of them studying for criminal-justice or homeland-security degrees, CNN reports. Cocaine, marijuana, and ecstasy were being dealt, largely by fraternity members, during a 5-month undercover DEA operation, the agency said.

The operation, code-named Sudden Fall, was launched when a student died of a cocaine overdose a year ago, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. “A sad commentary is that when one of these individuals was arrested, he inquired as to whether or not his arrest and incarceration would have an effect on his becoming a federal law enforcement officer," said a DEA agent.

Sources CNN, San Diego Union-Tribune

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A graphic made up by the San Diego county district attorney's office is mounted behind guns and drugs seized during the arrest of 96 people on drug charges at a news conference held in San Diego Tuesday,...   (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
Photographers photograph guns and drugs seized during the arrest of 96 people on drug charges displayed at a news conference held in San Diego Tuesday, May 6, 2008.   (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
San Diego State University president Stephen Weber and SDSU chief of police John Browning, stand over a guns and drugs seized during the arrest of 96 people on drug charges in San Diego.   (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
San Diego State University president Stephen Weber, left, speaks next to guns and drugs seized during the arrest of 96 people on drug charges at a news conference in San Diego Tuesday, May 6, 2008.   (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
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