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The Daily OrangeSUNY-ESF | Drug bust 'distresses' president
Seven ounces of marijuana seized at party
By Al Ortiz
Posted: 11/5/07, 1:25 AM EST Section: News
A loud noise complaint for a Lancaster Street Halloween party resulted in more noise than Syracuse Police Department expected.
The common complaint turned into a serious drug bust Wednesday after police saw pipes and drugs in an open bedroom closet just before midnight at 912 Lancaster St., police told The Post-Standard. Police confiscated about seven ounces of marijuana, 10 grams of hallucinogenic and a dose of LSD.
Officer Matthew LaLonde was clearing people from the house when he walked up to an open bedroom and saw marijuana pipes, a jar of marijuana and a jar of mushrooms in an open closet.
Police said resident Marc Yancey, a sophomore State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry student, granted LaLonde consent to search the second floor bedroom.
There, police said they found 82 grams of marijuana in a plastic bag stuck between a dresser and the wall in addition to the other containers of drugs in the room.
Austin Merola, sophomore ESF student, claimed to live there and gave police consent to enter and search the rest of the house, police said.
LaLonde continued to the third floor and found a locked secret room behind a tapestry, which held 34 grams of marijuana, 56 grams of a red-brown substance that tested positive for either morphine or heroin and $225 in cash and credit cards with Merola's name, police said.
The two students have been suspended on possession of drugs, according to an e-mail sent to the ESF community by ESF President Cornelius Murphy.
Murphy wrote the e-mail to cultivate university-wide awareness of the student suspensions and to note that tighter security precautions will be enforced to ensure that the campus remains safe and less tolerant toward erratic behavior.
The cemetery located next to the school will also have more patrol cars policing the area, the e-mail stated.
The disappointment of ESF's leader was apparent in Murphy's e-mail, where he stated that the situation was "distressing." The suspensions come at a time where numerous other cases similar to this one have occurred.
The common complaint turned into a serious drug bust Wednesday after police saw pipes and drugs in an open bedroom closet just before midnight at 912 Lancaster St., police told The Post-Standard. Police confiscated about seven ounces of marijuana, 10 grams of hallucinogenic and a dose of LSD.
Officer Matthew LaLonde was clearing people from the house when he walked up to an open bedroom and saw marijuana pipes, a jar of marijuana and a jar of mushrooms in an open closet.
Police said resident Marc Yancey, a sophomore State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry student, granted LaLonde consent to search the second floor bedroom.
There, police said they found 82 grams of marijuana in a plastic bag stuck between a dresser and the wall in addition to the other containers of drugs in the room.
Austin Merola, sophomore ESF student, claimed to live there and gave police consent to enter and search the rest of the house, police said.
LaLonde continued to the third floor and found a locked secret room behind a tapestry, which held 34 grams of marijuana, 56 grams of a red-brown substance that tested positive for either morphine or heroin and $225 in cash and credit cards with Merola's name, police said.
The two students have been suspended on possession of drugs, according to an e-mail sent to the ESF community by ESF President Cornelius Murphy.
Murphy wrote the e-mail to cultivate university-wide awareness of the student suspensions and to note that tighter security precautions will be enforced to ensure that the campus remains safe and less tolerant toward erratic behavior.
The cemetery located next to the school will also have more patrol cars policing the area, the e-mail stated.
The disappointment of ESF's leader was apparent in Murphy's e-mail, where he stated that the situation was "distressing." The suspensions come at a time where numerous other cases similar to this one have occurred.
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Retrovirus
posted 11/05/07 @ 10:24 AM EST
Um, a word of advice: If you're going to hoard large amounts of illegal drugs in your domicile, it's best to avoid attracting the attention of police. (Continued…)
Drug addiction treatment
posted 6/04/08 @ 3:27 PM EST
Wow, this is a big drug amount of drugs, I don't understand where from that much controversy... These students where aware of the risks of having drugs. (Continued…)
Sandy
posted 10/31/08 @ 2:25 AM EST
All jurisdictions with a rule of law and a right to privacy put constraints on the powers of police investigators, and typically require search warrants, or an equivalent procedure, for searches within a criminal enquiry. (Continued…)
johnglen
johnglen
posted 11/04/08 @ 1:23 AM EST
GO ESF!
lsd practically comes out of the water fountains there
its great =]
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