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University Students Indicted
On Second Drug Charge

Two University students, arrested in
New York on narcotics charges, were
indicted in Charlottesville Monday by a
Corporation Court Grand Jury on charges
of possession of marijuana.

The New York arrest on December 11
of the two University second-year men
led to a search of their Grady Avenue
apartment and the subsequent seizure of
about a light "dime" of marijuana by
authorities here. The Students, John W.
McGuire of Bristol, Conn., and Llewellyn
Bosworth Powell from Mystic, Conn., were
originally arrested at a Long Island "pot party."

According to the Charlottesville Daily
Progress, the students, who were freed on bond
by the New York authorities have yet to be
taken into custody and have not received a
preliminary hearing. John T. Camblos, Commonwealth's
Attorney, would not explain his
direct appeal to the grand jury for the
indictment.

The search of the Charlottesville apartment
was made by Police Chief C.O. Durham,
Detective B.L. Coles, Detective F.W. Mayo
and University Police Chief Ra Houchens. The
Progress reported that the search took place on
Thursday, December 11, but witnesses saw the
agents in the apartment Friday afternoon.

The agents coned 288.3 grams of
and an additional 3.1 grams of
seeds the illegal cache would
amount to about fifteen

Possession use of hashish,
felonies under the inform Drug Act,
have minimum penalties of a time up to 1,000
and a peni sentence of up to five years.
However, the law also provides for possession
of more than 25 grams a minimum sentence of
20 years with a maximum of 40 years.

The two are the second and third University
students known to be arrested on d
within one year. Last spring was
sentenced to 25 years with five suspended on
similar charges. Former Governor Mills Godwin
suspended that sentence, handed down by an
elderly Danville Judge, placing the former track
star on five-year probation.

The two indictments follow one earlier area
arrest of a 19-year-old Orange County youth
was convicted of possession of marijuana
and ordered to serve ten years with ten more
suspended.