Police say four Wesleyan University students arrested this week after about a dozen people who took the party drug Molly were hospitalized are known on campus as drug dealers.
Three of the students were arraigned in Middletown Superior Court on Wednesday: Eric Lonergan of Rio de Janeiro; Rama Agha al Nakib of Lutherville, Maryland; and Zachary Kramer of Bethesda, Maryland. A fourth -- Andrew Olson of Atascadero, California -- posted bond Tuesday.
The Hartford Courant reported that the three arraigned students are neuroscience majors. All four have been suspended from the university.
The students' lawyers said no Molly was found. Warrants showed that police believe the bad batch of the drug originated in the Washington, D.C. area.
From the Courant report:
[Middletown police Chief William] McKenna said that because the Molly that students took was a mixture of drugs, it made "the health risks unpredictable and treatment to combat the effects complex and problematic." Prosecutor Eugene Calistro, Jr. said in court Wednesday that Lonergan had "essentially a drugstore in his room [and] he did not have prescriptions for those drugs." Calistro said officers found 610 Xanax tablets and more than $300 while searching al Nakib's apartment, and said al-Nakib admitted to police she sold the Xanax. Calistro said police found a small amount of marijuana and 197 nitrous oxide cartridges in Kramer's dorm room. According to the arrest warrant for Kramer, police said they also found balloons with the nitrous oxide, which together are known to be distributed and inhaled to provide a high.
All four students are due in court on March 3.
This report includes information from The Associated Press. Correction: an earlier version of this report stated that all four students are neuroscience majors. Three are confirmed as such.