What Does the Fraternity Drug Bust Mean for Chapel Hill?
Kevin Guskiewicz
UNC Interim Chancellor
(Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill)
An eleventh-hour announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice and Orange County Sheriffâs Office right at the end of 2020 dropped a bomb on the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. It reverberated across the country.
Twenty-one people were indicted for moving serious weight in a small college town with fewer than 60,000 residents. Theyâre accused of selling over a thousand pounds of marijuana, a few hundred pounds of cocaine, and other narcotics at the university. Three UNC-Chapel Hill fraternitiesâBeta Theta Pi, Phi Gamma Delta, and Kappa Sigmaâwere name-dropped by the department as the site of drug sales, and frat brothers were implicated, too.
The investigation revealed the suspects had transported hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, LSD, molly, mushrooms, steroids, human growth hormone, Xanax, and more.
Drug-dealing network alleged at Duke, UNC Chapel Hill and Appalachian State courant.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from courant.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Turlock man sentenced for supplying drugs to North Carolina fraternities
A Turlock man has been named by federal agents as the key link in a drug chain that funneled large amounts cocaine and marijuana to college campuses in North Carolina.
Francisco Javier Ochoa Jr., 27, of Turlock was indicted in November 2019 for conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine and conspiracy to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana. On Nov. 24, 2020, Ochoa entered a guilty plea to the charges against him and was sentenced to 73 months in prison and five years of supervised release, according to the U.S. Attorney s Office for the Middle District of North Carolina. He also was ordered to pay a $250,000 forfeiture judgment.
North Carolina frat members funneled huge quantities of pot, cocaine and other drugs to 3 colleges, feds say dailypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.