Student Sentenced in Drug Sale Case
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A University of Virginia student was sentenced to 13 months in prison Monday for selling drugs in one of three fraternity houses seized by federal authorities during a high-profile attack on middle-class drug dealing.
Ernest Brown Pryor, 19, pleaded guilty to two counts of drug distribution near a school.
Assistant U.S. Atty. Ray Fitzgerald said Pryor sold a little over half an ounce of marijuana and about one-third of an ounce of hallucinogenic mushrooms to an undercover agent at the Phi Epsilon Pi house on two occasions.
He was among 11 students arrested March 21, when federal, state and local officers stormed the three houses with arrest and search warrants.
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