The Face That Launched SDSU Raids

Jenny Poliakoff

The overdose death of a beautiful college student — Jenny Poliakoff — led to the recent police raids at San Diego State University that uncovered a vast student run drug dealing ring based in fraternity houses.

Students never thought they’d be caught operating on the college campus. They might have been justified in thinking that the confines of the university would give them protection from authorities. Law enforcement officials who infiltrated the college campus drug rings had to keep the university officials out of the loop because they feared that the administrators would try to derail the drug investigations, reports Newsweek.

Reports Newsweek’s Jamie Reno and Dirk Johnson in Inside the San Diego State University Drug Bust:

The raid, which included crackdowns on several fraternities, came a year to the day after the overdose death of Jenny Poliakoff, a 19-year-old student at San Diego State. It was the tragedy that triggered the undercover drug operation. The college student had gone to a party and a sorority dance the night before; she died of poisoning from cocaine and alcohol. …

The highly organized, widespread drug dealing at a university with a solid academic reputation astonished seasoned prosecutors and narcotics officers, says Damon Mosler, chief of the narcotics division of the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office. “There was high-level dealing going on, and that is shown by the fact that students were dying,” Mosler tells NEWSWEEK. “These guys had to be taken down.”

At the Theta Chi house, agents discovered a rough draft of a handwritten business plan for selling drugs. “It talks about what percentage they would mark up the drugs,” says Mosler. … Investigators claim (a) student sent a mass text message to “faithful customers” promoting a coming “sale” on cocaine.

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