Freshman arrested over backpack filled with ingredients for meth
Breaking Bad, Ivy League edition
A former Cornell freshman has been arrested for possessing materials used in the manufacture of DMT.
Sean Lee was arrested and charged with second-degree reckless endangerment and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance yesterday.
His arrest concludes a 10-month investigation in what appears to be Cornell’s very own Breaking Bad episode.
In January, suspicious chemicals were found in a backpack in Risley Hall resembling meth packet materials.
A more extensive investigation revealed that the chemicals were associated with the manufacture of methamphetamine.
It determined that Lee was making DMT (dimethyltryptamine), a Schedule I hallucinogenic substance.
Lee claimed ownership of the materials the day they were found, but was only just charged after all evidence had been tested.
Turns out the cops are the ones who knock…