San Diego State Suspends 6 Frats in Wake of Drug Raid
Six SDSU Fraternities Placed on Suspension
By Patrick W. Connelly
Co-Editor, The Frat Boy News
A day after a massive drug raid on the campus of San Diego State University in which 75 students were arrested, school officials on Wednesday suspended six fraternities until further notice.
The fraternities suspended were Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Theta, Theta Chi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sigma Alpha Mu, a news release on the university's Web site said.
The fraternities were placed on an "interim suspension" until a "hearing into evidence gathered" in the raid, the university said.
The raid was the conclusion of about a year long investigation by the university and Drug Enforcement Administration into a drug ring involving students and an off-campus gang with ties to Mexican drug cartels, police said.
It was spawned by the 2007 sudden death of 19-year-old San Diego State University student and Alpha Phi sister Shirley Jennifer "Jenny" Poliakoff.
Miss Poliakoff died in her apartment the morning following a sorority dance. At the time of her death, she had cocaine and alcohol in her system but she didn't necessarily overdose, her parents told The San Diego Union Tribune.
The original 75 students charged included brothers of Phi Kappa Psi and Theta Chi, police said. It was unclear Wednesday night if brothers of other fraternities were also among those charged.
A Theta Chi brother sent out a mass text message to people police called his customers alerting them he and his associates in the drug dealing operation wouldn't be able to sell cocaine while they were away in Las Vegas, agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration said.
In the bust, police seized money, weapons, and drugs including cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana, psychedelic mushrooms, hash oil and methamphetamines, they said.
A total of four pounds of cocaine, 50 pounds of marijuana, 48 hydroponic marijuana plants, 350 ecstasy pills, 30 vials of hash oil, a shotgun, three pistols, three sets of brass knuckles and $60,000 in cash were among confiscated items, police said.
More than 130 transactions between undercover agents and sellers took place, police said.
Posted May 8, 2008 on The Frat Boy News.
