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The students - 21-year-old Eric Lonergan, 21-year-old Zachary
Kramer, 20-year-old Andrew Olson, and 20-year-old Rama Agha Al
Nakib - had all been arrested by Tuesday night, Middletown
Police Chief William McKenna said in a statement.
Police also searched locations in and around campus for
additional evidence, McKenna said. The four were jailed with
bonds between $75,000 and $150,000 on various charges of drug
possession or sale.
A total of 12 students have received treatment for overdose
symptoms, including a sophomore who was listed in critical
condition over the weekend, officials said. McKenna said two
students remained hospitalized on Tuesday.
"This particular batch may have had a mixture of several kinds
of designer drug chemicals, making the health risks
unpredictable and treatment to combat the effects, complex and
problematic," McKenna said.
Molly is the street name for a drug that is pushed as the pure
powder form of MDMA, a banned substance. It is the main chemical
in ecstasy, a psychoactive drug.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco)
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