San Francisco Chronicle: Few arrested in San Diego State bust face charges
Nearly four months after federal agents and campus police stormed San Diego State University’s Fraternity Row in one of the nation’s largest campus drug busts, fewer than half of those arrested face charges as the school tries to repair its image ahead of the upcoming academic year.
Authorities announced 128 people had been arrested, but only 77 cases were referred to the San Diego County district attorney’s office, which never filed charges against eight people and dismissed charges or issued citations to another 11, bringing the total number of active charges to just 58.
Of those, the district attorney’s office says 29 have pleaded guilty. Prosecutors said only those with prior convictions would be subject to long prison sentences; most will be put on probation.
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