radioNOVO News for Lewistown: August 18, 2026

RNN LEWISTOWN 08/18/26           FOURTEEN PEOPLE, INCLUDING SIX CURRENT PENN STATE STUDENTS, ARE CHARGED IN WHAT ATTORNEY GENERAL DAVE SUNDAY CALLS A LARGE-SCALE COCAINE TRAFFICKING OPERATION INVOLVING TWO OFF-CAMPUS FRATERNITIES.  YESTERDAY, SUNDAY ANNOUNCED THAT MEMBERS AND PLEDGES OF DELTA UPSILON AND SIGMA CHI PACKAGED AND SOLD POUNDS OF COCAINE TO STUDENTS BETWEEN 2023 AND 2024. PROSECUTORS SAY THE DRUGS WERE BROUGHT TO STATE COLLEGE FROM PHILLY AND NEW YORK.            FIVE PEOPLE FACE FELONY DRUG CHARGES, WHILE EIGHT FACE MISDEMEANORS. PENN STATE HAS PLACED DELTA UPSILON ON INTERIM SUSPENSION WHILE IT INVESTIGATES. SIGMA CHI IS NOT RECOGNIZED BY THE UNIVERSITY.          MIFFLIN COUNTY REGIONAL POLICE WERE BUSY IN THE MONTH OF JULY, WITH 550 INCIDENT REPORTS TO SHOW FOR THEIR WORK.           OF THOSE REPORTS, 10 WERE FOR INCIDENTS OF THEFT AND / OR FRAUD, TWO WERE FOR ASSAULTS, 23 WERE FOR MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS AND 96 WERE TRAFFIC CITATIONS.  THERE WERE ALSO THREE ARRESTS FOR DRIVING WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE.                    REGIONAL POLICE OFFICERS ALSO HANDED OUT 10 NON-TRAFFIC CITATIONS AND 36 WRITTEN WARNINGS.