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Police Arrest Students
For Drug Manufacture

By Philip Kimball
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Federal, state and local authorities
raided University Heights apartment
early Sunday morning, charging its four
student occupants with manufacturing
and possessing a "controlled" drug.

The arrests were made following a raid
at 8:30 a.m. involving twelve law
enforcement officials. The students were
charged with "unlawfully and feloniously
possessing a controlled schedule one
drug."

Under the new Virginia Drug Law,
enacted in 1970, drugs are placed in five
categories or "schedules." The most
dangerous drugs are placed under
schedule one.

Police recovered a number of glass
flasks, rubber tubing and other materials
they believed were used in the manufacturing
of DMT, an hallucinogen similar to LSD. Also
confiscated was a quantity of what authorities
believed to be DMT.

Also found was material suspected of being
marijuana and hashish. All confiscated materials
are presently being subjected to analysis at the
state's crime lab in Richmond. Marijuana
charges have not yet been field.

Arrested were engineering students Thomas
P. Wright of Baltimore, Dale Elliot Dawson of
Washington, and William Sherman III of
Virginia Beach. Arrested for manufacturing as
well as possessing a hallucinogenic drug was
Glen Stephen McFadin, a University college
student from Falls Church.

Three of the students are presently in the
city jail. Mr. Sherman has been released on
$10,000 bond.

State police lieutenant Carl A. Deavers who
led the raid said that "an investigation had been
underway throughout February and a 24-hour
surveillance had been in progress since February
19."

Involved in the arrests were officers from
the State Police, the Charlottesville City Police
Department, and the Albemarle Sheriff's
Department, the Bureau of Narcotics and
Dangerous Drugs, and a state drug chemist.

Also present at the raid was Rea G.
Houchens, Chief of the University Security
Department.

Of the twelve officers involved in the raid
only three officers actually searched the
apartment.

A state police spokesman said the
manufacturing of the drug, apparently carried
out in the kitchen of the apartment, is believed
to have been begun about midnight Saturday
and was discovered eight hours later. The
process of making the drug under these
conditions normally takes several hours.

The market value of the confiscated drugs is
between $5,000 and $10,000, estimated a
federal agent.