by KYW's Mark Abrams
Philadelphia police say they raided a pot house near Temple University’s North Philadelphia campus and broke up a marijuana distribution ring that sold to Temple students.
Police allege that two 21-year-old Temple students, identified as Kevin Mastridge (top left) and Michael Deltito (top right), along with 20-year-old Marcella Gringeri (bottom left), a student at LaSalle, and Jeremy Harris (bottom right), from Adams County near Gettysburg, Pa. and who is not a student, are facing a long list of drug charges.
Narcotics officers say they found 16 pounds of marijuana with a street value of $145,000 and $12,000 in cash when they hit the off-campus home in the 2200 block of North Camac Street earlier this week.
Jeff is a junior from West Chester, Pa. who is majoring in communications major here at Temple:
"I can understand why somebody would do something like that, but, at the same time it’s breeding a lot of other bad things. There’s a lot of guns on the street, and guns lead to drugs, lead to murders. So we gotta clean up the city."
Police picked up leads on the pot house while stepping up patrols in neighborhoods near the Temple campus after a series of recent robberies of students.
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