9 Arrests in Prep School Drug Ring: Teens Sold Cocaine, Ecstasy, Marijuana at Philly Schools
Nine arrests occurred to take down a prep school drug ring in Philadelphia called the "Main Line Take Over Project," prosecutors announced Monday. Affluent suburban students and graduates of prep schools were looking to run a monopoly of the drug business in the area, selling marijuana, cocaine, hash oil and MDMA to high school and college students.
The creators of the drug ring, 25-year-old Neil Scott and 28-year-old Timothy Brooks, both graduated from the prestigious Haverford School. They employed "sub-dealers" to sell drugs at Lower Merion High School, Harriton High School, Conestoga High School, Radnor High School, Haverford College, Lafayette College, and Gettysburg College, which are all in Pennsylvania, according to NBC News.
The nine people arrested were Scott and Brooks, 18-year-old Daniel McGrath of The Haverford School; 20-year-old John Roseman of Lafayette College; 23-year-old Christian Euler of Lafayette; 18-year-old Garret Johnson of Haverford College; 18-year-old Reid Cohen of Haverford College; 22-year-old Willow Orr and 29-year-old Domenic Curcio. Two 17-year-old students from Radnor High School and Lower Merion High School have also been petitioned by the District Attorney's office.
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"This was not a game. These people were in business, they were in business to make money and they were going to do whatever they needed to do so that no one threatened their business," Montgomery County DA Risa Ferman told NBC News.
Scott, who used his prior experience at a legal marijuana dispensary in California, had marijuana shipped to his Haverford, Pa. apartment, his parent's house in Paoli and Brooks' home in Villanova. He also provided incentives to his sub-dealers, giving them lower prices on marijuana if they were able to meet weekly quotas.
"The high school sub-dealers were encouraged to develop their business so that they could sell at least one pound of marijuana each week," Ferman said. "Brooks instructed the dealers to make sure that there was never a drought."
When authorities raided Scott's apartment and other spots in February, they found 8 lbs. of marijuana, 3 grams of hash oil, 23 grams of cocaine, 11 grams of ecstasy, $11,000 in cash, a loaded handgun, an AR-15 assault rifle and another AR-15-style rifle.
Scott is currently being held on $1 million bail, while Brooks' parents posted the $25,000 bail for his release.
Investigators managed to find out about the Main Line Take Over Project through confidential informants.
