Updated Sept. 13, 2012, 4:51 p.m.
Metropolitan Police officers arrested two students Saturday for possession of and intent to sell marijuana in South Hall.
Officers seized 12 "clear zips containing a green weed like" substance that tested positive for THC, which is found in marijuana. They also found 19 pieces of drug paraphernalia, according to MPD documents. Erika Grohoski and Rachel Kenny were then arrested.
The MPD officer who led the bust, Robert Reese, did not return a request for comment about the amount seized.
The University Police Department responded to a reports of a “suspicious odor” coming from the ninth-floor South Hall room, UPD Captain Mark Balazik said. During a room search, officers saw the drugs and paraphernalia in plain site and called in the Metropolitan Police Department.
University policy lists expulsion as the typical consequence for selling drugs, and possession of more than one ounce of marijuana is considered a major offense, likely leading to suspension.
Ninety percent of drug violations on campus involve marijuana, UPD Chief Kevin Hay said in June. Two students were arrested Aug. 31 for possession of cocaine, ecstasy pills, marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
This article was updated Sept. 13, 2012 to reflect the following:
The Metropolitan Police Department records listed Samantha Marshall as being charged with intent to distribute marijuana with the other students. The Hatchet received further information after publication time, indicating that Marshall was only arrested for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernelia.
stop publishing names ! you guys are cruel.
Maybe they should stop getting arrested… that would solve the problem too…
Poor girls. They’re not troublemakers at all.
i know they really arent
For marijuana alone, they publish the names, but for “cocaine, ecstasy pills, marijuana, and drug paraphernalia” those 2 people remain anonymous. Absolutely ridiculous and absurd.
Actually they published the names of the cocaine girls in the original article 1-2 weeks ago, dumbass.
What is your problem? These people don’t need any more publicity than you’re already giving them. And was it seriously NECESSARY to mention the Aug. 31 arrest? No. STOP USING NAMES.
Enough is enough. Report on the arrest, whatever, but stop putting their names in it. Just like in the article about the two girls arrested for cocaine and ecstasy, these girls are going through a lot right now, legally and emotionally. There is no need to put their names out on blast for everyone to see. What they did was wrong, yes, but that doesn’t justify making this private matter public. I understand that you are in your complete legal rights to do so, but just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s right. This article would have been perfectly informative without mentioning the girls’ names.
it is not a private matter. they were arrested by MPD. it was a public crime. that makes it PUBLIC.
Using names adds nothing to the story. Have some respect
Completely agree. The girls do not need extra punishment. Yeah, they shouldn’t have broken the law. But it’s not your business to make their life any harder right now
the hatchet isn’t aiming to make their life harder, they are just reporting the news. you know, its like facts and stuff…
Thank you for publishing the names. Arrests are public record and available for the world to see. Why is everyone so concerned about protecting drug dealers? I know I don’t want crime in my community. Keep up the crime reporting Hatchet.
It’s a pretty dumb crime to have paraded around. Encountering them in public is not going to cause you any personal harm. Knowing their names doesn’t make the community safer.
When you are arrested names become part of the public record, they were perfectly fine to use names here.
I think it’s fine to use their names. The job of the press is to report the information as accurate as possible regardless of how “embarassing” it is. No one seems to be complaining when papers publish stories like this about other people. It’s called telling the facts and not sugar coating it. Maybe they should have not been stupid and gotten caught so easily this early.
When’s the last time you’ve seen the NY Times publish an article about someone getting arrested for marijuana? Faculty reads this paper. How do you think it feels for them to walk into class and have everyone know what happened? I bet it doesn’t feel great. You can report the information “as accurate as possible” without their names. Does it really matter who they are? If you were that curious, you could have looked it up yourself. There is no need for the Hatchet to out them. That is not the Hatchet’s job. These girls are not dangerous to our community, there’s no need for us to know who they are and where they live.
It’s also not the Hatchet’s job to protect these people. How does it feel for them to walk around campus now? I bet it sucks. But that’s what happens when you break the law.
It’s the Hatchet’s job to accurately report what is happening on campus. The NYTimes might not regularly publish information like this but the Metro section might – a local town paper might. It’s called audience.
This editor needs to resign. The Hatchet is becoming really destructive to this school.
You’re right. The problem with GW is our nationally ranked independent student newspaper and not a bunch of girls probably selling drugs out of our senior dorm. How did I not think of that?
Maybe it’s because I have a brain. Yeah, that’s it.
Concur w/ “Crime Doesn’t Pay.” Adult arrestees’ names are a matter of public record and are regularly published by police departments and local news media.
If the allegations are true, these students had no problem with buyers knowing their identities…what are they scared of now?
I feel like I’m looking at the fucking inside of a bathroom stall from high school. Did you people even try to form coherent thoughts before criticizing this story, or did you just slam your heads against the keyboard until your ear hit the enter button?
Really? I go to a “world class college” and I’m watching a bunch of people complain because some girls are being forced to own up to their mistake and the consequences that come with it. This shouldn’t even be a debate.
I’m not saying these girls are bad people. They’re not. Most of us do risky and sometimes illegal things because we are adults that can make our own decisions. When these adult decisions are bad ones and we get in trouble, this is what happens. Our names are printed in newspapers. Since crime is news, the Hatchet does it’s job and prints the crime with all the facts! Look at your local newspaper and find the crime log. It has names! And sometimes, the people arrested are your friends! DEAL WITH IT.
Sorry your little GW bubble popped and the real world spilled in, but this is how life works. Get used to it.
THANK YOU! Someone finally said it! Welcome to reality.
This isn’t newsworthy really. You’re wasting space when the same result could have been achieved by listing this in the Crime Log. I really don’t understand the need to publish a full article when students decided to take or sell drugs.
I went to GW from 74 to 79, when the guards walked the halls and smelled something funny they would simply shut the door.
Hatchet, listen to your subscribers. Nobody wants to see the names. It makes YOU the SOURCE of a NEGATIVE sentiment.
If you counter by saying, “it’s public info,” then let us research & find it at our will.
Who the hell cares about a marijuana bust. This story makes some college kids look like a couple of big time distributors! I bet these ‘bags’ were a couple of ziplock baggies crammed with less then 3 ounces, and then you go and publish their names? What the hell Hatchet, some of your staff uses these illicit drugs themselves, and now your releasing names of individuals who have to walk around this very campus and deal with a backlash of stories that incriminate them regardless of the outcome of there court follow up? You just reported a case of an arrest, not a successful prosecution.. and regardless of the court outcome these individuals won’t get those results published
or maybe students should do a better job of not getting arrested if they use the illicit drugs ever think of that? it’s not a common occurance for students to get arrested with drug possession. im glad The Hatchet writes about it, warns everyone on campus to not be stupid and get caught. easy task if you ask me! now get your head out of your ass.
How in the heck is the Hatchet destroying the school?? Seems to me that the people doing the illegal activities would be the cause of any destruction to the universities reputation! How would not publishing the names of individuals make it any “less destructive” vs. just reporting “students were arrested with the intent to sell”? Either way it’s written, the university has the same reputation of educating drug dealers.
The fact that someone is doing something illegal on campus should embarass you as a university vs. whether or not this paper publishes names to crimes. And really, what difference does it make if names are published? If they weren’t doing something illegal in the first place, then they wouldn’t even be part of a story!
how about “in plain sight” instead?