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Drug charges plague frat
JESSICA LEVINE
Issue date: 3/2/07 Section: News
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Three Alpha Epsilon Pi members were charged with felony drug-related offenses this week in two separate incidents.
The following accounts were taken from Athens-Clarke County and University Police reports:
Officers on the Western Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force served a search warrant at Marc Rael Segel and Michael Phillip Klug's apartment on Magnolia Bluff Drive at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday. The task force includes investigators from ACC Police, University Police and the Oconee County Sheriff's Department.
Arrest warrants were taken out on Segel and Klug on Wednesday.
Segel is charged with manufacturing marijuana, possession of a schedule II drug and a felony count of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.
Klug was charged with possession of a schedule II drug.
A schedule II drug is characterized as having a high abuse risk but also as having accepted medical uses. Schedule II drugs include narcotics, stimulants and depressants, such as cocaine, morphine and methadone.
The police report did not indicate which schedule II drug Segel and Klug possessed.
Alpha Epsilon Pi member Brandon Adam Grant was arrested in his East Campus Village dorm room on Feb. 22 and charged with a misdemeanor count of possession of marijuana and a felony count of intent to distribute.
Klug, Grant and Chad Borer, president of Alpha Epsilon Pi, declined to comment.
Efforts to reach Segel were unsuccessful Thursday evening.
ACC Lt. Mike Hunsinger said the task force is looking for illegal activity, not targeting specific individuals because of their group affiliations.
"We are not interested in whether they are Greek or not," he said.
The following accounts were taken from Athens-Clarke County and University Police reports:
Officers on the Western Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force served a search warrant at Marc Rael Segel and Michael Phillip Klug's apartment on Magnolia Bluff Drive at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday. The task force includes investigators from ACC Police, University Police and the Oconee County Sheriff's Department.
Arrest warrants were taken out on Segel and Klug on Wednesday.
Segel is charged with manufacturing marijuana, possession of a schedule II drug and a felony count of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.
Klug was charged with possession of a schedule II drug.
A schedule II drug is characterized as having a high abuse risk but also as having accepted medical uses. Schedule II drugs include narcotics, stimulants and depressants, such as cocaine, morphine and methadone.
The police report did not indicate which schedule II drug Segel and Klug possessed.
Alpha Epsilon Pi member Brandon Adam Grant was arrested in his East Campus Village dorm room on Feb. 22 and charged with a misdemeanor count of possession of marijuana and a felony count of intent to distribute.
Klug, Grant and Chad Borer, president of Alpha Epsilon Pi, declined to comment.
Efforts to reach Segel were unsuccessful Thursday evening.
ACC Lt. Mike Hunsinger said the task force is looking for illegal activity, not targeting specific individuals because of their group affiliations.
"We are not interested in whether they are Greek or not," he said.
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Jack
posted 3/02/07 @ 11:13 AM EST
--"We are not interested in whether they are Greek or not," he said.--
But you can't be damn sure the Red & Black is!
Seriously... when you reported on all the Chi Phi arrests, that's one thing, because you're just informing us who this person is -- "__ was arrested earlier this year for being an absolute dumbass at Tate Plaza. (Continued…)
scott
posted 3/02/07 @ 12:22 PM EST
is this a plague on the fraternity or just these three dealers? your aversion to fraternities has erupted these last few weeks. consider that the issues of drugs and alcohol at UGA are not isolated to the fraternity system, they are just easier to categorize. (Continued…)
Jordan C. Reiss
posted 3/02/07 @ 1:51 PM EST
The Red and Black should be ashamed of itself regarding the headline of this story. It is one thing to report on two students legal problems, but another thing to implicate an entire fraternity. (Continued…)
Jordan C. Reiss
posted 3/02/07 @ 1:54 PM EST
The Red and Black should be ashamed of itself regarding the headline of this story. It is one thing to report on two students legal problems, but another thing to implicate an entire fraternity. (Continued…)
M.G.
posted 3/02/07 @ 3:06 PM EST
I believe the great Bob Marley once said, "You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time."
I feel nothing but pure and utter outrage that someone as yourself, Ms. (Continued…)
chris
posted 3/02/07 @ 6:27 PM EST
Plague -(verb tense) to harass or trouble; to annoy or vex. I see nothing wrong with this choice of words. I would hope that any group or organization would be bothered by 3 FELONY drug charges in 1 week by its members. (Continued…)
agreed
posted 3/03/07 @ 6:28 PM EST
I agree that the three involved unfortunately implicate the entire fraternity, and there need to be better standards set among my fellow greek organizations. (Continued…)
Jeremy
posted 3/04/07 @ 12:47 PM EST
Why doesn't this headline say "Red and Black Readers Plagued by Drug Charges"? Or why not "Pre-Med/Journalism/Business/Etc. (take your pick) Students"? We should take note that the only connection between this event and the fraternity is that these three individuals are members. (Continued…)
Doug
posted 3/04/07 @ 5:28 PM EST
If they were football players, the title would say "Football players...". The red and black used their fraternity as a way to identify them not to comment on the state of fraternity life or even their fraternity. (Continued…)
Jason Daynor
posted 3/04/07 @ 5:42 PM EST
While I agree with the rather distasteful headline, what about the drug charges?
This isn't the place to debate the economics and morality of the drug war, but this is a campus newspaper so the implications for academics should be considered. (Continued…)
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