First-year student Justin Yim, an 18-year-old from Douglaston, New York, faces several of drug related charges and is being held on a $50,000 (£34,646) bail.
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Jin and three others were reportedly treated at the Bryn Mawr Hospital prior to the New Jersey native being charged with aggravated assault, harassment, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest.
Four students, including one of those arrested, required hospital treatment for “drug induced state”, police said. The student assaulted both a female victim and a public safety officer before being taken into custody. A short time later, public safety officers responded to another incident where they found another freshman male and a juvenile girl who was visiting campus, also under the influence of LSD. The drug, police say, often results in delirious, sometimes violent behavior in those who use it. A student found dealing drugs would be subject to expulsion, he said.
“The subject had walked into one of the facilities at Villanova … assaulted a female”, Radnor police Lt. Chris Flanagan said.
Flanagan said the department’s concern has not increased in the wake of the events that occurred over the weekend as he believed it to be an isolated problem, rather than a university-wide epidemic. Police then issued an arrest warrant for Yim, his roommate. Cops allegedly found $9,000 in cash, 37 LSD tablets and an envelope suspected of containing marijuana in the room. When he returned to campus Sunday evening he was arrested. Director of Public Safety David Tedjeske says, “LSD on the campus is really unheard of in my 8 years there”. The investigation led police to Yim and the alleged cache of drugs and money in his dorm room.
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Two more people were taken to the hospital over the weekend for similar drug-related incidents at Villanova, Flanagan said.
