radioNovo News for State College: August 18, 2026

RNN STATE COLLEGE 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.          CLINTON COUNTY RESIDENT MICHAEL OGLESBY WILL SPEND THE NEXT 14 AND A HALF TO 29 YEARS IN STATE PRISON FOR SEXUALLY ABUSING A CHILD IN BELLEFONTE AND CLINTON COUNTY. THE 41-YEAR OLD PLED GUILTY TO INVOLUNTARY DEVIATE SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH A CHILD. OGLESBY WAS ALSO SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS PROBATION UPON HIS RELEASE, AND HAS BEEN DESIGNATED A SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATOR, REQUIRING LIFETIME REGISTRATION AS A SEX OFFENDER.