UW STUDENT ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGES

University of Wisconsin police and the U.S. Postal Service combined their
efforts Monday morning in the arrest of a UW student suspected of dealing
drugs out of his apartment, according to police.

Bradley Sills, who lives on the 500 block of University Avenue in the
Embassy apartment complex, was charged with maintaining a drug dwelling,
possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, and possession of
psylocibin mushrooms with intent to distribute, said detective Carol Ann
Glassmaker of the UW Police, who described Sill's arrest as "a result of
bits and pieces put together through various agencies."

Glassmaker said police found more than an ounce of both mushrooms and
marijuana.

If convicted of the charges, all three of which are classified as felonies,
Sills, currently booked into the Dane County Jail, could face seven to 10
years in prison, Glassmaker said.

Police said the U.S. Postal Service assisted in the bust but would not
specify how the agency was involved.

The arrest comes just three days after three UW students convicted on drug
charges were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 37 to 65 months.

The three were arrested in April after federal agents tied them to a drug
ring responsible for distributing over 100,000 ecstasy pills over a
two-year period.

The arrest prompted local authorities to pay closer attention to drug
distribution and use around the campus area.

"That bust was a wake-up call for all of us," Capt. Dale Burke of the UW
Police said.

Ashkan Faradieh, one of the three recently sentenced to prison terms, wrote
a letter to the Badger Herald several days before his sentencing, pleading
for students to consider the consequences of becoming involved in drug
trafficking.

"I am writing this letter from the Dane County Jail. When I leave here
after my sentencing Nov. 22, I am not going home to my family or to
graduate school or to my first good job. I am going to a federal prison,"
Faradieh's letter read. "I am writing this letter with the hope that I can
dissuade at least one young person from making the same mistakes that I did."

Sills' bail hearing is set for Wednesday.