Comments on: DMT arrest update: John Romano released, others held without bail

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:51:08 +0000

hahaha, i sat next to john in my english class, hahaha didnt know he was gunna make a dmt lab

By: Vox Populi » Harbin freshman arrested for “use of a controlled substance”

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:45:18 +0000

[...] John Romano (COL ’14), and John Perrone, a freshman at the University of Richmond. Romano was released by authorities and was relieved of all charges against him on Monday; Smith and Perrone were charged with [...]

By: Vox Populi » Washington Post reports that K2 tip, not “strange odor,” led to Harbin arrests

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:57:24 +0000

[...] The Washington Post is reporting that University Public Safety officers received a drug tip on Saturday morning that led to the arrests of Charlie Smith (SFS ’14), John Perrone, a University of Richmond freshman, and John Romano (COL ’14), who was released by authorities yesterday. [...]

By: Adult Student

Adult Student — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:33:20 +0000

@izzo: Having taught in a maximum prison for men, I’ll tell you what they would have if they’d had the opportunity: Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.

Criminal acts INSIDE the gates do not make you less culpable. To some people, being a student here makes you MORE culpable. You’re supposed to be smart, not smart-assed.

By: ConcernedStudent

ConcernedStudent — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:41:12 +0000

@ izzo
buddy, I feel bad that charlie smith’s life is ruined because he made an incredibly dumb mistake, but it is a very entitled notion to think that the Students, Media, and Georgetown administration have any kind of responsibility to cover up what he did for the sake of his future. He is an adult who did something incredibly stupid. It could have happened now, or it could have happened years from now, but I said it once and I’ll repeat myself, he is responsible for the fact that his future has been crushed. It’s not everyone else’s fault, in fact it’s not anyone else’s fault.

Also, I don’t give a shit about Antigone. She was’t building a drug lab in a building full of other people. Her situation literally has no bearing. This isn’t a matter of someone defying a law that is unfair or unjust. Illegal drugs are illegal. No one needs them, no one is entitled to them the way someone is entitled to burying her brother. The consequences he faces now are written plainly in the law. If he had a problem with them he should have thought about the actions he took.

I don’t know if you are defying everyone so vehemently because he was your friend, your relative, your dealer, or whatever. But if you are defending him because you find yourself in a similar, but yet undiscovered situation, you may want to rethink what you are doing because the world will treat you just the way it treated Charlie. Thats just how it works for those of us who are rational. It’s predictable, and because we are all warned that actions have consequences, it also tends to be fair. Cause and effect. Get used to it.

By: @izzo hoya

@izzo hoya — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:16:51 +0000

Again as has been said before – you can’t condemn the media for distributing info that is a matter of public record. In fact, news organizations (and GU administrators) have an obligation to inform their communities with all the facts that are available. I understand that you are probably friends with Charlie and you are upset that he is getting so much attention, but maybe he should have thought of that before building a drug lab in his dorm room.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:11:47 +0000

*that theirs are the values

By: Eileen

Eileen — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:11:25 +0000

@Izzo Considering the family in question (Oedipus, Jocasta, Antigone, Ismene, Polyneices, and Eteocles) was created by an incestuous marriage between a woman and her natural son, I’m a bit leery to say that their values I’d like my community to share. I’m not sure why you’re bringing up Sophocles, though, unless it’s to try to show off.

By: Izzo H.O.Y.A.

Izzo H.O.Y.A. — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 03:40:30 +0000

@Tim – That’s cool, but I’m actually talking about Charlie Smith, about whose alleged activities, Olson emailed: “Please know that the DEA has informed us that there was never a health risk to students in Harbin.” And as for national embarrassment, I agree that those who publicized what should have remained private facts should be condemned. Hoya Saxa!

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:48:02 +0000

@ Izzo,
Family does take care of its own. I have no relation to a jackass who, in his second month at Georgetown, engages in behavior that jeopardizes the safety of his dorm-mates and brings tremendous national embarrassment to the rest of this “family.”