ring that supplied cocaine and marijuana to college students across North Carolina, leading to nearly two dozens arrests, officials said Thursday.
The 21 defendants include students and they're accused of funneling drugs, often through fraternities, to schoolmates at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University and Appalachian State University, authorities said. "This is about saving lives," U.S. Attorney Matthew Martin told reporters in Hillsborough."This really is a public health crisis. We really have to stand together, cut off the supply."While the investigation is ongoing, officials said a primary supplier was Francisco Javier Ochoa, a 27-year-old from Turlock, California. He supplied about 200 pounds of marijuana and two kilograms of cocaine on a weekly basis to North Carolina codefendants, authorities said.
He pleaded guilty to federal narcotics charges in November and was sentenced to 73 months behind bars, officials said."I want to make it very clear, this is not a situation where you have casual users, where you have a 19-year-old sipping a beer or you have someone taking a puff off a joint on the back porch of the fraternity house," the prosecutor said.
"These are 21 hardened drug dealers. This conspiracy moved thousands of pounds of marijuana over the course of several years, hundreds of kilos of cocaine.""We are extremely disappointed to learn of these alleged actions on our campus," UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz said in statement.
Everyone saying 'its just weed'.... umm did y'all not cocaine in the sentence as well?
DrBWillingham Why not name the 21 defendants and their respective sentences? Or, is there a narrative the journalist is perpetuating?
Locke’em up! The devils weed! They probably had playboy magazines too! Get them on some pornography charges!
Leave marijuana alone.
unc and duke... think lots of rich kids and their drug habits. there’s the privilege of not prosecuting the rich kid druggie... but only their dealers. switched druggies to blacks, latinos, or asians...they would have been arrested and charged. their dorms would have been raided
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And another 'ring' takes over.
OMG, college students smoking pot?
Wait, isn't this ok now? 😂 I thought cocaine and weed were all good to go now. (I know, I know it's just for Oregon). Just stahp 🤦🏻♂️
So what?
Good good news. You see so easy take care. Of matter real things. We are drugs. Infected instead of misinformation please. Do us a favor. Attack the drug dealer killing the young people
Marijuana?! *hides stash*
Wow Hunter Biden’s day goes from bad to worse.
Must be some big name universities.
😳
Remember when we actually used to punish drug dealers?
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