Prep School Grads Masterminded A Drug Ring


Pennsylvania – A pair of clean-cut, all-American prep school graduates were arrested today, for masterminding a drug ring spanning the affluent neighborhoods north of Philadelphia.

Neil Scott, 25, and Timothy Brooks, 18, imported large quantities of drugs including marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and hash oil and then distributed the drugs to street-level dealers. The drug dealers targeted teens at five high schools in the upscale North Philly suburbs, authorities said.

A four-month investigation revealed the drug ring masterminds also recruited students at Haverford, Gettysburg and Lafayette colleges to push drugs in their own schools, authorities said.

Scott and Brooks were both graduates of the Haverford School, an elite private school with a tuition rate of $35,000 a year. Both of them decided to drop out of expensive colleges to focus on dealing drugs in the Main Line suburbs of Philly and Montgomery County, authorities said Monday after derailing the operation in a sting dubbed “The Main Line Take Over Project.”

Neil Scott and Timothy Brooks were both high level lacrosse players in prep school, and developed the fledgling drug ring using their sports contacts and social networking, plus a healthy dose of good old fashioned ivy league business acumen.

“They were using very traditional business principles,” Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said at a press conference. “To take those skills and turn it into this kind of illegal enterprise is very distressing.”

According to authorities, much of the investigation was centered on Scott’s Haverford apartment. Scott allegedly began having large shipments of marijuana delivered to his place of residence starting in late 2013. In January, an anonymous informant tipped authorities off to the “Main Line Take Over Project” drug ring. The 4 month sting culminated when police executed search warrants at nine separate locations.

When the smoke cleared, cops had seized approximately 8lbs of marijunana, 3 grams of hash oil, 23 grams of cocaine, 11 grams of MDMA, more than $11,000 in cash, a loaded AR-15 assault rifle, a loaded 9mm pistol, and enough ammo to bring down a grizzly bear. Additionally, they impounded eight cellphones and two cars.

Scott is currently in custody, held on $1 million bail.

Authorities didn’t calculate the total value of the drug seizure, but in an affidavit, Scott told police he was making about $1,000 per week on marijuana alone. According to investigators, Scott began selling pot after he moved back to the area last fall from San Diego, where he worked at a medical marijuana dispensary.

Scott told police that he needed money and figured he could make it by selling better marijuana than what was currently available in the area. An unspecified California connection could supply Scott with high-quality pot, which “would sell very well on the Main Line because everyone between 15 and 55 loves good weed,” an investigator wrote in the affidavit.

Timothy Brooks’ attorney, Greg Pagano, described his client as vulnerable and a bit depressed after leaving the University of Richmond last year due to an unnamed injury. Brooks lives with his family in Villanova.

“He, regrettably, lost his way,” Pagano said. “His parents are devastated.”

All in all, a total of 7 men, 1 woman, and 2 minors have been arrested on drug charges so far. The investigation into the length and breadth of the Main Line Take Over drug ring continues.

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