Drug bust nets 96 at San Diego State

[sinkingfeeling]

Source: CNN.com

Authorities have arrested nearly 100 people and seized guns and drugs in a sting operation at San Diego State University in California, the Drug Enforcement Administration said Tuesday.

Among those arrested were 75 students, some of them working toward criminal justice or homeland security degrees. One criminal justice major was charged with possession of guns and cocaine, authorities said.

One student sent a mass text message offering a "sale" on cocaine, the DEA said in a news release.

One student allegedly dealing cocaine was a month short of obtaining a master's degree in Homeland Security and worked with campus police as a student community service officer.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/06/sdsu.bust/index.htm...

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Why don't I think have a couple of cocaine busts will keep these smart people from joining up with Homeland Security or one of our 'intelligence' agencies?

I guess I don't have much faith in America any more.

[seriousstan]

1. Or even the Presidency?

[khaos]

2. selling cocaine! preparing for a career in the CIA or what?

i bet the job offers are pouring in

[heliarc]

24. They're going directly to see Rudi Dekkers... nt

[northzax]

59. the Firm? from San Diego State?

you're joking. Homeland Security, sure, but the CIA isn't known for recruiting below their comfort zone of top flight schools (although they certainly should) or the military.

[napi21]

3. I'm thinkin these fools have screwed up their future big time!

AFAIK they will never be able to get a job with any police dept. and I doubt Homeland Security will hire any of them either.

[Taverner]

4. Yet if you ever had a Muslim for a neighbor, you can't get a Security Clearance

[Cant trust em]

5. Nice work, numbskulls. Way to make us alumni proud.

Higher education my ass.

[izquierdista]

27. SD State?

They put the "high" in higher education! The original definition of a "party school".

[Cant trust em]

28. This comes out just in time for my next round of resume submissions.

Great timing.

[Dreamer Tatum]

29. You honestly think this bust will taint your resume?

PLEASE. Any place that would care about it is a place you wouldn't want to work.

[Cant trust em]

31. I'd rather just not talk about it. Even if it is in good humor.

[Dreamer Tatum]

32. I can dig that

I can't imagine an employer bringing that up, however. SDSU is a much better school than people think, anyway.

[rocktivity]

6. Hey, maybe the criminal justice/homeland security students

were just doing research for extra credit!


rocknation

[catnhatnh]

7. Just for my sick curiosity's sake...

When the FUCK did they start offering "masters" degrees in faschism???

[rdenney]

17. Since * became our "fearless leader?"

Simply incredible that these people were going into law-enforcement.

[Fearless]

8. This is going to be massively overplayed... just watch...

If you don't think that this happens at every major university in the nation you're out of your mind. Most privately bust them, make them take a class and then they can still get jobs when they graduate. Not now. For shame.

[rdenney]

14. I wonder how many of these hypocrites are in these jobs now?

..how low can this nation get?

[Fearless]

34. How where they hypocritical?

[rdenney]

38. Many of them were going into justice, security & law-enforcement work. Selling drugs is Illegal.

Thats how it is hypocritical.

[Ishoutandscream2]

9. Hell, with the ever increasing cost of college...

Well, just saying...

[daggahead]

10. But ...

The military will take convicted felons. They may have a career as an army of one.

[KansDem]

11. Homework? On the job training?

One student allegedly dealing cocaine was a month short of obtaining a master's degree in Homeland Security and worked with campus police as a student community service officer.

C'mon, give 'em a break! Maybe they were cramming for finals!

KansDem: an alumnus of San Diego State University
"Go, Aztecs!"

[Tunkamerica]

12. Judge Mathis always makes fun of people selling weed on

myspace. Texting is just as dumb. Like the law can't read every/any text they want.

[Blue_Tires]

13. doesn't surprise me that many of them were greeks....

[hendo]

35. what the hell is that supposed to mean!

The intolerance of some of the people here.

[HughBeaumont]

37. Fraternities, not the nationality.

[TheWatcher]

43. Fraternities and Tolerance

There's an Oxymoron.

[hendo]

48. you will find just as many intolerant people

outside of the fraternity system as you will in it, so get off your high horse.

[TheWatcher]

50. Spoken like a True Apologist.

And I would imagine, a former Greek yourself.

Congratulations. ::Golf Clap::

[Psephos]

54. You probably don't sense the irony of your post. n/t

[mainegreen]

58. Greeks: one of the groups it's ok to be bigoted about on DU.

Your opinion sucks.

[northzax]

61. whatever

it's a built in distribution system.

[mainegreen]

62. It's a club.

And all clubs are evil right?

[PSPS]

15. What the hell is a "degree in Homeland Security?"

One student allegedly dealing cocaine was a month short of obtaining a master's degree in Homeland Security and worked with campus police as a student community service officer.

[driver8]

16. I was wondering the same thing...n/t

[rdenney]

20. I wonder if these people are drug tested on the job ?

I cant understand if they are not tested on a random basis.

[awoke_in_2003]

26. dealer doesn't necessarily mean user. nt

[rdenney]

39. Fair enough. n/t

[northzax]

60. in fact smart dealers aren't users

those that are tend not to last long.

just like there are very few good bartenders who are alcoholics, or good accountants with a gambling jones. Sure, there are some, but the disease tends to catch up to you when you have an unlimited supply...

[khaos]

25. thug training

[haele]

40. I'm thinking it's your average criminal justice degree with a few "management"

type courses. Similar to specialized Post Graduate training paid for by the military or some other government departments to enhance the typical education to the job the person is actually doing. The "kid" was probably interning for a senior management job at DHS.

Haele

[pinniped]

44. Can't you get the same thing through Sally Struthers University?

.

[curious one]

18. Here comes our future officials!

They know how to keep young people busy and away from politics.

[noonwitch]

19. What kind of idiot text messages a sale on cocaine?

Hasn't anyone learned from the Detroit Mayor's scandal?

[indio55555]

21. "One student sent a mass text message offering a "sale" on cocaine"

Lemme guess.... major in marketing????

[Hannah Bell]

22. Or - provocateur?

[Dreamer Tatum]

30. MAYBE, just MAYBE, it's a bunch of a-hole frat boys who think they're invincible

So long, dudes. Watch your backs in prison.

[dogfacedboy]

42. BINGO! nt

[sudopod]

56. DUDE, MY DAD OWNS A CAR DEALERSHIP! nt

[harmonicon]

23. HAHAHA - suckers! NT

[alarimer]

33. Selling cocaine is perfect training for the CIA.

Didn't they run some covert operations involving drug smuggling into the US?

[sinkingfeeling]

45. Or the US Presidency!

[Megahurtz]

36. WTF?

>>>"some of them working toward criminal justice or homeland security degrees.<<<"

[dogfacedboy]

41. Oh, what a shock! Frat boys selling drugs.

Back in the late 70's, my most reliable "vendors" were from a frat house at Northwestern U.
I'm pretty sure they all wound up in high level careers.

These guys at San Diego State were idiots. Too much surveillance these days.

[MarkInLA]

46. The "Greek system" is so lame

Fraternities and sororities are often breeding grounds for Republicanism. Get rid of them!!

Maybe my view is extreme, but when a guy tells me he belongs to a fraternity, it lowers my opinion of him.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

47. I know I'm biased and stereotyping

But I hate, really hate, fraternities and all they represent.

[pjazz19]

49. As a student at SDSU

As a student @ SDSU I can tell you that this is really just a bunch of chest thumping for our campus police. What a load of BS. My personal feelings on the whole "drug war" aside....we recently had a student raped in one of our parking structures, every week cars are broken into on campus, every month cars are stolen! I can't help but wonder if the energy they put into this whole "bust" could have been better spent. Granted--I don't think selling cocaine is a good thing or using it--but they were also busting people for possession of marijuana, which should be 100 percent legal.

What a waste.

[OKthatsIT]

51. There was only one person selling cocaine and owned guns

it's all for the corporate media....WE NEED BLACKWATER, WE NEED BLACKWATER!

What a load of crap.

[fbahrami]

55. agreed

It's sad when these kids will get felony and 2+ years whereas much worse crimes go unpunished.

[sudopod]

57. also what you said. nt

[barnel]

52. one of those fraturnities was mine

(national, not the specific university)

dumb asses

gonna look real nice on a job application

[barnel]

53. greek system just one of many University sacred cows

other sacred cows:

the 4 year degree: what other good or service is sold in such an arbitrary unit? sociology and electrical engineering, both take 4 years, what a freaking coincidence!

i conducted training as a consultant. you know how many days i was allowed to train someone? one month tops, usually far less - the number of days it took to do the job, not one hour more

how many trainees was i allowed to 'fail', or consider not good enough to do the job? --> 0

sure, there was some pre-selection in the trainees, but failure was MY failure, not theirs, and when i was done with them they were expected to be able to perform the role immiediatly, in complex roles such as manufacturing systems analyst, imaging manager, trading systems programmer

but then, I had clients, not students

a huge difference in the attitude of the person doing the training