For the academic year 2024-2025, the undergraduate tuition at Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus is $20,644 for Pennsylvania residents and $41,790 for out-of-state students. Parents who send their children there expect them to get a good education and a good start on their adult life. That isn’t always what happens.

On Monday, The Daily Caller posted an article about some recent charges brought against students at Penn State.

The article reports:

Fourteen people ran a cocaine operation out of two Penn State fraternity houses, supplying the drug to fellow students for roughly two years, Pennsylvania prosecutors alleged Monday.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced the charges alongside the State College Police Department, according to his office.

Thirteen of those accused attended Penn State at or near the time of the alleged activity in 2023 and 2024, and the remaining defendant is the father of a student, charged with tampering with evidence and obstructing the probe. Sunday’s office later confirmed that at least four of those charged are current students.

Agostino Abbatiello and Thomas Robinson supplied the group with drugs, traveling to Philadelphia and New York to bring back large amounts of cocaine, the attorney general’s office said. Members and pledges of Delta Upsilon and Sigma Chi then cut and bagged the drug at the two houses before selling it to classmates.

“This was a coordinated and highly-profitable drug-trafficking crew revolving around two senior members of the fraternities, other fraternity brothers, and pledges,” Sunday said in a statement released by his office. “In fact, according to the evidence uncovered, cutting and packaging cocaine was, for some pledges, an indoctrination into the fraternities.”

…Abbatiello, Robinson, Mohammed Hurabi and Lars Zeepvat face felony counts of corrupt organizations, conspiracy and dealing in proceeds of unlawful activity, according to the attorney general’s office. Robert Zanolla is charged with felony conspiracy and criminal use of a communication facility. Eight others face misdemeanors. Paul Robinson, the student’s father, allegedly hid a safe holding drugs and cash.

One of the fraternities involved has been placed on interim suspension. The other was never recognized by the college.

The article does not indicate whether all members of the fraternities were involved in the activities, but this case should make parents very aware of what can go on in our colleges. Hug your children and watch them closely!