BY John Lauinger
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Originally Published:Tuesday, December 7th 2010, 11:57 AM
Updated: Tuesday, December 7th 2010, 7:34 PM
" ... students - including an elite scholar - were busted Tuesday for dealing drugs out of frat houses and dorms on the Ivy League campus, officials said.
The undergrads sold nearly $11,000 in cocaine, LSD, marijuana, ecstasy and other drugs to undercover cops since July, police charged.
"This is no way to work your way through college," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
A five-month sting dubbed "Operation Ivy League" culminated in raids on Columbia's Morningside Heights campus during which all five students were collared.
They were arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan Criminal Court and were ordered held in lieu of bail that ranged from $25,000 to $75,000.
One student, Michael Wymbs, 22, a senior from Beach Haven, N.J., is a former vice president of the student council of the engineering school. His lawyer said he has a 3.5-grade point average and has done cancer research. "He's applied to graduate school. He hopes this arrest won't derail his plans," said the lawyer, Michael Bachner, adding that Wymbs' father is a business professor at CUNY.
Another student, Harrison David, 20, a sophomore from Laguna Beach, Calif., was also an engineering student - and salutatorian of his high school class.
Baby-faced Adam Klein, 20, who hails from Charleston, S.C., is a neuroscience major and a member of the fencing team, according to the school website.
Also arrested were Chris Coles, 20, and Jose Stephan Perez, 20.
All five tried to cover their faces as they were led out of the NYPD's 25th Precinct stationhouse early Tuesday afternoon. They are expected to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan Criminal Court.
When Coles was pinched, he told cops he was selling weed to pay for school, according to a source familiar with the investigation. . . "
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