POLICE ARREST 11 STUDENTS OF EDINBORO U. OF PENNSYLVANIA ON DRUG CHARGES

Police officers arrested 11 students of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
on Friday during an early-morning drug sweep of campus housing and nearby
apartment buildings.

Two dozen officers and several drug-sniffing dogs from more than half a
dozen local jurisdictions in northwestern Pennsylvania conducted the raid,
which netted undisclosed amounts of marijuana, a prescription anti-anxiety
drug, and substances that students allegedly had passed off as cocaine and
Ecstasy, according to an account published on Saturday in the Erie Times
News, a local newspaper.

A spokesman for the Borough of Edinboro Police Department confirmed the
arrests but was unable to comment on details of the police raid.

Charges filed against the students, ages 18 to 22, include possession,
delivery, and intent to deliver controlled substances or look-alike
substances. The raid concluded a five-week undercover investigation of
drug-dealing activity on and around the campus, according to the Erie
newspaper.

The institution was aware of the impending raid, but its police did not
take part. State law prohibits the university's law-enforcement agents from
participating in the operations of the regional task force that conducted
the drug sweep. That task force operates under the direction of the state
attorney general's narcotics bureau.

Under the university's policy of zero tolerance for illegal drug use,
students found guilty of the charges will face punishments ranging from
probation to expulsion, said Emily F. Sinsabaugh, a university spokeswoman.

She applauded the raid.

"The message is clear that illegal drug activity has no place on our
campus," Ms. Sinsabaugh said. "We are grateful that the regional agencies
are as committed to ensuring the safety of our campus as we are."