Columbia University

Columbia University:Dozens of police officers with dogs and battering rams busted three Columbia University fraternities early Tuesday morning during drug raids.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says five students and three off-campus individuals, who allegedly supplied the campus operation, were arrested.

Columbia University officials say they're taking the alleged criminal drug activity very seriously. the university wouldn't comment on whether the students would be suspended or expelled.

Police called the elaborate undercover effort "Operation Ivy League."

Kelly says it was the largest drug bust on a college campus in recent memory. The "frat rats" distributed a wide array of drugs including marijuana, Ecstasy, cocaine, LSD and other stimulants.

In addition to the drug dealing arrests, police charged one of the off-campus alleged dealers for trying to engage an undercover police officer in a conspiracy to kidnap and kill a pair of rival dealers.

Investigators say their undercover operation was prompted by several anonymous tips about illicit drug dealing on the campus. Police say the probe started this past summer.....Read More