Cocaine trafficking ring busted at top university as young students 'forced to cut and bag drugs'

13 students and a dad have been slapped with charges as police say they have uncovered a cocaine trafficking operation run out of two university fraternity houses

Penn State students accused of operating drug ring out of fraternities  USA Today

“In fact, according to the evidence uncovered, cutting and packaging cocaine was, for some pledges, an indoctrination into the fraternities," Attorney General Dave Sunday said.

Authorities say 13 former or current Penn State University students participated in a cocaine-trafficking ring that involved two fraternities

Thirteen former and current Penn State students, and one student's father, are facing charges related to an alleged cocaine ring. Prosecutors allege drugs were cut and packaged at two frat houses, sometimes by pledges. Michael George reports.

August 17, 2026 7:25 PM ET Fourteen people ran a cocaine operation out of two Penn State fraternity houses, supplying the drug to fellow students for roughly two years, Pennsylvania prosecutors alleged Monday.Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced the charges alongside the State College Police Department,

More than a dozen Penn State University students are accused of packaging and selling cocaine as part of a multistate drug operation.

Former railway engineer Akeel Knight-Pascoe, 33, ran at least four drugs lines