Cornell Student Caught With $150K In Heroin

Keri Blakinger

It's Operation Ivy League Part 2! A Cornell University senior has been arrested after police found her with a Tupperware container with six ounces of uncut heroin, worth about $150,000. Keri Lynn Blakinger, 26, was arrested in the parking lot of Ithaca's Hillside Inn, and Deputy Ithaca Police Chief John Barber said, "The preliminary weight of the heroin indicates it may be the second largest seizure of the drug by the Ithaca Police Department since September of 2008." She was also described as "not acting right." Was she peeing in bottles too?

In related drug bust news, a Thai woman was arrested was found to have swallowed 1,280 ecstasy pills ($50,000 worth) wrapped in plastic during a body search at Bali's international airport, and due to Indonesia's tough drug laws could face death by firing squad. Officials say 24-year-old Sophawat Ueamduean was nervous and was found to have a "hard stomach" during a body exam. Just a reminder to keep the pounds on when you fly, because if you're too cut you could be mistaken for a drug smuggler.

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By Jaya Saxena in News on December 21, 2010 5:19 PM

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Ragingsemi

But she looks like such an upstanding young scholar.

NlGGAZ

are you sure it was heroin? looks like faces of meth to me.

l3iodeez

Nope. Thats smack 100%. Meth would give the same facial sores but a slightly maniacal rather than dead look in the eye.

my_beanus

how exactly does 6 uncut ounces of heroin does equate to $150,000

jaycjay

Kind of sad to look through those links. She was on the editorial board and wrote for the Cornell paper; she's not without talent (check it out, Gohamist writers: she wrote whole articles without copying a word from a different source! And it was serious stuff, she could write a whole article without using teenager-style sarcasm even once! And every sentence made sense. I mean, she was good!)

So now there's stuff like this: the online version of an article she wrote on a murder trial back in April now displays at the top of the "Popular Stories" list next to it the story about her own arrest.
http://cornellsun.com/section/...

100

Dang - that's interesting about the article she wrote plus the article about her side by side. I'm still disappointed that Bernie Kerik wasn't jailed in the jail named after him....

Rocknrope

Good for a Cornell student or good for a drug smuggler?

Peter Rosa

Was she peeing in bottles too?

Well if she was I sure hope they were wide-mouthed bottles. It's pretty messy when a woman tries to Bail out the Canoe into a normal bottle ... at least it sure looked that way on the You Porn video I watched.

JMH

Looks like the Hillside Inn is exactly the same as I remember it.

my_beanus

LOL her facebook profile quotes this from Fear and Loathing in LV:

"I knew it was a crime; I did it anyway."

http://www.facebook.com/profil...