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9 Arrests In A Prep School

April 23, 2014 by  

9 Arrests In A Prep School, Stacks of cash and semiautomatic weapons are displayed on a table with suspected drugs and dealing equipment during a news conference Monday in Ardmore, Pa. Montgomery County prosecutors allege 25-year-old Neil Scott and 18-year-old Timothy Brooks, both graduates of The Haverford School, are the drug ring’s leaders.

Two clean-cut prep school grads enlisted local high school and college students to move several pounds of narcotics every week as the men aimed to become the drug kingpins of affluent suburbs north of Philadelphia, authorities said.

Neil K. Scott, 25, and Timothy R. Brooks, 18, were both lacrosse-playing graduates of the $35,000-a-year Haverford School who decided to drop out of expensive colleges to focus on dealing drugs in the Main Line suburbs of Philly and Montgomery County, authorities said Monday after derailing the operation in a sting dubbed “The Main Line Take Over Project.”

“They were using very traditional business principles,” Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said at a press conference. “To take those skills and turn it into this kind of illegal enterprise is very distressing.”

Much of the operation centered on Scott’s Haverford apartment, where the duo would receive large shipments of pounds of marijuana, authorities said. Scott and Brooks, using their prep school credentials and ties to high school athletics, funneled the drugs to subdealers at five local high schools and three colleges.

Those young adults would sling pot, cocaine, hash oil and ecstasy to their classmates at highly ranked schools in the Philadelphia area.

Scott and Brooks would allegedly push the subdealers to each move at least one pound of weed each week, and offer incentives like lower drug prices and the ability to buy drugs on credit if they successfully hooked new customers.

In total, eight men and one woman were arrested, as were two 17-year-old juveniles who live with their parents.

Clem Murray/AP Montgomery County, Pa., District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman holds a rifle that was among the drugs, guns, money and other illegal items seized when Lower Merion Police broke up a drug distribution ring in Montgomery County, Pa.
Several of the defendants wore suit jackets and ties as they had their mugshots taken.

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