Hotshot-lawyer dad of accused Penn State cocaine ring member is charged in son’s frat house scheme

Paul Robinson allegedly ‘took steps to conceal evidence, including a safe containing drugs and cash,’ Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday says

Agostino Abbatiello, 24, allegedly made regular trips to New York and Philadelphia with another defendant to buy large quantities of cocaine.

Fourteen individuals have been charged in a cocaine-trafficking bust involving two Pennsylvania State University fraternities.

The drug ring reportedly operated in 2023 and 2024, using fraternity pledges to cut and package cocaine. The drugs were distributed through Penn State students.

They went on a ski trip — and now anyone with a TikTok account can watch. Mere hours after news broke that 14 fraternity alumni at Penn State were busted in a sophisticated cocaine trafficking ring, current brothers in one of the accused houses, Sigma Chi, were broadcast conducting a tour of their fraternity house,...

Agostino Abbatiello of Westbury was denied bail after turning himself in as the alleged ringleader of a Penn State fraternity cocaine trafficking ring.

Delta Upsilon and Sigma Chi were off campus, with Delta Upsilon placed on interim probation More than a dozen Penn State University students ran a cocaine-trafficking ring that cut and packaged the potent drug mainly at two fraternity houses, authorities said on Monday. The Pennsylvania attorney general, Dave Sunday, a

More than a dozen fraternity brothers have been arrested for their roles in a drug-trafficking ring that involved members of two Penn State University fraternities. Thirteen fraternity brothers from Sigma Chi and Delta Upsilon — four of whom are still students at the university — and one father are facing a slew of cha

Over a dozen former and current Penn State University students face charges of felony corrupt organizations, conspiracy and other offenses.

More than a dozen current and former Penn State University students, along with one of their parents, have been charged in a major cocaine trafficking ring. Prosecutors allege two off-campus fraternities appeared to be the hubs for the operation. Meg Oliver reports.

Thirteen current and former students at Penn State University are charged in connection with an off-campus cocaine ring. Authorities allege senior members of Delta Upsilon and Sigma Chi ran the operation inside their fraternities between 2023 and 2024. Officials say the suspects used new pledges to cut and package the

Fourteen people, including one parent, have been charged over the alleged drug-trafficking operation, prosecutors said.

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

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,