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Police Arrest
Two For Drugs

Two University students were arrested
on drug charges last Thursday evening
after they were caught at a Long Island,
New York, marijuana party, The Cavalier
Daily learned over the weekend.

The students, John W. McGuire, a
second-year man from Bristol, Conn., and
L. Bosworth Powell, also second year
from Mystic, Conn., were released on ball after
being booked on narcotics violations.

Informed sources said Sunday that the two
were considering turning state's witness by
providing authorities with names of drug
pushers and users in attempt to lessen any
possible sentence.

Official sources at the University and in the
Charlottesville police department either professed
ignorance concerning the circumstances
surrounding the arrest or they refused to
comment on the affair.

Apparently, the arresting agents in New
York contacted the Charlottesville police,
informed them of the arrest and requested that
authorities here search the Grady Avenue
apartment which the students had rented.

Friday afternoon two city policemen and
one University security man, armed with a
search warrant, entered the apartment and
reportedly found an undetermined amount of
narcotics.

Sometime during the search, four other
University students reportedly knocked at the
door of the apartment, hoping to request a ride
from Charlottesville to Boston later that day.
The investigating agents released the four after
brief examination.

Wade Bromwell, Director of Security at the
University, said yesterday that his department
had had nothing to do with the search, even
though the University officer was present. He
said that local police usually contact his
department when they are investigating a case
involving students but that the University
officer was at the apartment only at the request
and invitation of the city police.

Mr. Bromwell did admit that he had checked
on the local address given to the investigating
officers by one of the students who had entered
the apartment, but that he did so because the
address given was not a usual residence of
students.

However, Mr. Bromwell said that, once the
owner of the residence attested to the fact that
the student did indeed live there and after she
assured him that all four students were
"innocent, innocent, innocent," he dropped the
matter, leaving it in the hands of the city
police.

One of the other students also claimed that
his country cottage was searched by two
plainclothes policemen sometime Saturday.
However, Mr. Bromwell stated that the
University had nothing to do with the search
and the city and state police likewise denied
any involvement in it.

D. Alan Williams, Dean of Student Affairs,
said yesterday that he had not received an
official report from the Department of Security
and that he knew nothing more than what he
had learned from students concerning the
arrest. He added t he did not know when or
if he would receive a report from the city and
University police.

C.O. Durham, Charlottesville's Chief of
Police, refused to comment on the case, saying
only that a report will be made to the
University "when the report comes in from
Richmond."

The Richmond report is probably a report
on the contents of the packages supposedly
seized at the apartment Friday afternoon.