This person's paranoia regarding breath mints may be alarmingly pathetic, but if she's Columbia student she can live without fear. The New York City Police Department announced today that it had broken up and arrested the brains and muscle behind Columbia Univeristy's frat scene drug ring, which provided Greeks and non-Greeks alike with cocaine, marijuana, ecstasy, Adderall and, to that commenter's presumable horror, LSD placed on Altoids and SweetTarts. 

The case -- and probably the inevitable made-for-cable movie as well -- is called "Operation Ivy League."

The City Room post makes it clear that it took more than your average Starsky and Hutch to lock up these big men on campus.

“The undercover officer in the case was so intimidating to Mr. Sarzynski that he asked the undercover to help him kidnap and torture rival cocaine sellers,” Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne told the Times, referring to the students' supplyer Miron Sarzynski. “If a ransom wasn’t paid, Sarzynski wanted the rivals killed.”

Who knew Columbia was swarming with such big-time dealers. Wash Heights, do or die?

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