14 Charged in Alleged Cocaine-Trafficking Ring Tied to Penn State Fraternities
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced criminal charges against 14 people connected to two fraternities.
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14 Charged in Alleged Cocaine Trafficking Ring Tied to Penn State Fraternities
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced charges against 14 people in connection with an alleged cocaine-trafficking operation tied to Penn State University fraternities Delta Upsilon and Sigma Chi in 2023 and 2024, according to reporting by abc7.com.
Investigators allege that senior fraternity members Agostino Abbatiello and Thomas Robinson led the operation, supplying cocaine and making regular trips to Philadelphia and New York for large quantities of cocaine between 2023 and 2024, abc7.com reported. Others allegedly cut and packaged the drugs primarily at the Delta Upsilon and Sigma Chi fraternity houses, and the cocaine was allegedly distributed to Penn State students. Paul Robinson, the father of one of the students, is accused of hiding drugs and cash in a safe, according to abc7.com.
Six of the 14 people charged are named in that reporting: Abbatiello, Thomas Robinson, Mohammed Hurabi, Lars Zeepvat, Robert Zanolla and Paul Robinson. The remaining eight are not identified in the material available here.
The case has not been decided. This is a criminal matter at the charging stage. The accounts above are allegations by investigators; they have not been tested at trial, and the reporting cited here records no plea, verdict, acquittal, sentence, dismissal or settlement for any of the 14 people charged. Anyone reading this at a later date should not take it as an account of a concluded case: at the point this story was written, the outcome was unknown and the matter was still to be resolved. No lawyer for any of those charged is quoted in the source reporting.
Editor's note: "Sunday" in this story is the surname of Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday, not a day of the week. The reporting cited here does not give the day or calendar date on which the charges were announced, and no date has been supplied for it.
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