Five Columbia Students Arrested on Drug Charges [City Room/NYT] 
 
 Breaking: Five Students Arrested in Drug Bust, “Operation Ivy League” [BWOG] Undercover officers spent $11,000 in 31 purchases of drugs including cocaine, marijuana, powdered MDMA or ecstasy, and LSD-laced Altoids mints and Sweetarts candy, the New York City Police Department and Bridget G. Brennan, the city’s special narcotics prosecutor, said in a statement. Most of the sales took place in common areas and bedrooms at the Alpha Epsilon Pi, Pi Kappa Alpha and Psi Upsilon fraternities, according to the statement.  school daze Five Columbia Students Busted for Drug Dealing in ‘Operation Ivy League’ 
 
 Over a period of five months, undercover officers at Columbia made nearly $11,000 in drug purchases from five students before descending upon the campus in a storm that was labeled by the NYPD "Operation Ivy League." Miron Sarzynski and his girlfriend, Megan Aspe, were previously rounded up in their East Village apartment, and Roberto Lagares was arrested in Bed-Stuy on Sunday. Sarzynski is also charged with attempting to kidnap a pair of rival cocaine traffickers who he thought stole money from him, and trying to hire an undercover officer to help him, according to the statement. Sarzynski’s alleged plan was to kidnap the rival traffickers with a stun gun, hold them for ransom and torture them by giving them a heavy dose of LSD, the statement said. “This is no way to work your way through college.” 
 
 The Columbia students were identified as Chris Coles, 20; Harrison David, 20; Adam Klein, 20; Jose Stephan Perez, 20; and Michael Wymbs, 22.
– This is not your run-of-the-mill Ivy League drug raid—this one has a torture-by-LSD component. When police gave details today about the five Columbia students arrested and charged with distributing everything from LSD to Adderall to fellow students, they also told of a crazy scheme by one of their alleged suppliers (not a student). He wanted to kidnap two rival cocaine traffickers he thought had cheated him, hold them for ransom, torture them with doses of acid, and kill them if nobody paid up. We know this because the person he enlisted to help carry out his plan was, of course, an undercover New York City cop working on the "Operation Ivy League" sting, reports Bloomberg. Says police chief Raymond Kelly: “The fact that a supplier to the Columbia students was willing to kill his rivals should demolish any argument that drugs on campus is a victimless crime. This is no way to work your way through college.” Click here for more details on the Columbia students arrested.