Speaker 1: Around. This is the seventy seven WABC Mini Cast. I'm
Speaker 1: going to share with you this remarkable story about what
Speaker 1: happened at Penn State the past few days. Penn State. Now,
Speaker 1: Penn State is a real school, a serious school, a
Speaker 1: school you and I could not have gotten into. Penn State.
Speaker 1: Students accused of running cocaine ring out of two fraternities.
Speaker 1: But it gets better. One of the fraternities isn't really
Speaker 1: a fraternity. It's it's funnier than them running drugs. These
Speaker 1: idiots announced the name that sounds like a fraternity. You know,
Speaker 1: I felt a thigh and they announced this, this is
Speaker 1: their fraternity. They put a sign on the side of
Speaker 1: a building, but it wasn't a real fraternity. It wasn't
Speaker 1: affiliated with a national fraternity, and the school did not
Speaker 1: recognize it as a fraternity. Just a bunch of guys
Speaker 1: put a sign in Greek on the side of a
Speaker 1: building and congratulations, we have a fraternity. Well, now they
Speaker 1: start to run a cocaine ring and they recruit pledges.
Speaker 1: Now you're running cocaine. You got a few bucks, serve
Speaker 1: nice dinners, have some nice parties. Seems like a really
Speaker 1: good fraternity. But the recruits. When recruits are taken into fraternities,
Speaker 1: as you know, they're hazede they have to do things. Well,
Speaker 1: this was different. They didn't have to do any of
Speaker 1: that in the basement. What they had to do was
Speaker 1: pack up cocaine wide, made it into bricks ready for distribution.
Speaker 1: Wacky labels, cocaine selling cocaine, big deal. Many people have
Speaker 1: been arrested, including one of the dads who tried to
Speaker 1: intervene students of Pennsylvania State University are accused of running
Speaker 1: a coke ring. Charges have been filed against fourteen people
Speaker 1: in connection with the alleged cocaine trafficking operation that involved
Speaker 1: fraternity Sigma Kai and Delta Upsilon. Attorney General of Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: made this announcement. Thirteen of the defendants were penn State
Speaker 1: students around the time of the alleged conduct. At least
Speaker 1: four of the charge individuals or current students. The fourteenth
Speaker 1: suspect this is the guy, is the father of a student.
Speaker 1: An investigation found that Augostino Abbatiello and Thomas Robinson were
Speaker 1: allegedly the main suppliers for the group, with the pair
Speaker 1: regularly visiting Philadelphia and New York to acquire large amounts
Speaker 1: of cocaine. The cocaine was often cut and packaged at
Speaker 1: the two furn attorneity houses, adding that it was then
Speaker 1: distributed mainly to other students. You're kidding, students were interested
Speaker 1: in cocaine, No way. This was a coordinated and highly
Speaker 1: profitable rug traffic crew revolving around two senior members of
Speaker 1: the fraternities of the Fraternity Brothers, etc. Let's see if
Speaker 1: there's anything else juicy in here. The father involved, identified
Speaker 1: as Paul Robinson, is charged with felony tampering, hindering apprehension
Speaker 1: for taking steps to conceal evidence, including a safe containing
Speaker 1: drugs cash. The Sigma Chai member had allegedly been dealing
Speaker 1: cocaine as recently as February. The former students were shocked
Speaker 1: by a taser during the encounter with cops. Cocaine, marijuana,
Speaker 1: amphetamine pills, a handgun, rounds of ammunition, and drug paraphernalia
Speaker 1: were found in the room, police said. The Penn State
Speaker 1: They say following Sunday's announcement, clarifying that the two fraternities
Speaker 1: were off campus Greek for these weren't real fraternities. They
Speaker 1: weren't like and you're surprised. You're surprised that it was
Speaker 1: well run, well organized. These are college students. These weren't
Speaker 1: high school students. These weren't thugs. These were very elite
Speaker 1: college students.