Seven people have been arrested and charged for their involvement in the Rutgers University communications company, according to the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office in New Jersey.
On Thursday, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said the result of an extensive drug investigation, Operation RU Pharm, resulted in seven arrests.
The investigation took several months, according to Cicccone, and uncovered a closed and secret social network used by Rutgers University students to buy and sell drugs.
The difficult task found a Rutgers student who created a private social network where “drug distributors can post drug menus and solicit buyers from the Rutgers University community.”
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An investigation has been underway for several months into an alleged drug ring involving Rutgers students. (Rutgers University)
Rutgers students who have established a relationship with the school are allowed to join the network, browse “menus” and contact distributors to negotiate drug purchases.
Investigators also seized large quantities of marijuana, LSD, cocaine, psilocybin mushrooms, Adderall, Xanax, a large amount of US currency and a firearm.
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Former Rutgers student Anudeep Revuri, 23, has been charged with being the leader of a drug trafficking ring.
Joshua Duffy, 20, Zachary Petersen, 22, Catherine Tierney, 23, David Nudelman, 20, Donovin Williams, 22, and Noah Lisimachio, 21, were all charged with at least one count of distribution of a controlled dangerous substance.
Ciccone said the investigation is still active, and anyone with information is asked to contact the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Task Force at 732-745-3300.
Operation RU Pharm arrested seven. (Rutgers University Police Department)
In 2020, another major drug trafficking ring involving a college was busted after fraternity members and students from the University of North Carolina and Duke University were caught trafficking drugs on three college campuses.
Federal law enforcement agents recently charged 21 people in the scheme after an investigation that began in November 2018.
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Investigators said they seized a large amount of drugs. (Google)
The illegal drug activity involved members of the Phi Gamma Delta, Kappa Sigma and Beta Theta Pi fraternities chapters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between 2017 and the spring of 2020, according to court filings.
The drug ring smuggled more than a ton of marijuana, several hundred pounds of cocaine and large amounts of other drugs into UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University and Appalachian State University, prosecutors said.
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Prosecutors say the total money made in the smuggling scheme exceeded $1.5 million.
Rutgers did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Stepheny Price is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. News tips and ideas can be sent to stepheny.price@fox.com
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