College drug sting snags justice, security majors, scores of others

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- About 100 people, including students majoring in homeland security and criminal justice, were arrested Tuesday in an undercover drug sting at San Diego State University, officials said.

Officials say the evidence seized includes 50 pounds of marijuana, four pounds of cocaine and 350 ecstasy pills.

Among those arrested, 75 were students, one of them a criminal justice major charged with possession of guns and cocaine, authorities said. One student allegedly dealing cocaine was a month short of obtaining a master's degree in homeland security at the California school and worked under campus police as a student community service officer.
Campus police initiated the investigation about a year ago, after a student's fatal overdose in May 2007, said university President Steve Weber. About five months ago, as the investigation evolved, campus police sought and received help from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
There was a second overdose death in February at a fraternity house.
"If proven guilty, these individuals have preyed on students and have ruined hundreds of lives," Weber told reporters. In addition to facing criminal charges, the students have been suspended from school and evicted from campus housing, he said.
Twenty-one people who are not students were arrested recently on a variety of drug charges, officials said.
Damon Mosler, chief of the narcotics division for the San Diego County District Attorney's Office, was surprised by what he described as the dealers' openness about what they were doing.

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