Ivy League students charged with running drug ring

Associated Press

NEW YORK

Five Columbia University students were charged Tuesday with selling LSD-spiked candy and other drugs at three fraternity houses and other residences on the Ivy League campus, with two allegedly claiming they needed the drug money to cover tuition.

Police arrested Christopher Coles, Harrison David, Adam Klein, Jose Stephen Perez and Michael Wymbs at dawn Tuesday at the prestigious school in upper Manhattan.

The students — all 20 years old except Perez, who’s 22 — were hauled into a Manhattan courtroom, shackled together and wearing Columbia and fraternity sweat shirts. They pleaded not guilty to multiple drug-dealing charges.

The five were to remain in custody until they could make bail ranging from $20,000 to $50,000 in cash.

Authorities called it one of the largest drug raids on a New York City college campus in recent memory.