Berkeley Daily Planet Adds More Details (and Humor) to Drug Bust Story
The BDP has their contribution up on their website about the unfolding drug bust saga, "Drug Bust Follows Student’s Death". Check back with CalStuff and we will continue to provide you with any additional details on this story from all the sources offering reporting. First, some information on the houses owner:

The two gray stucco houses are owned by Dr. Cynthia LeBlanc, Chief Academic Officer of the West Contra Costa Unified School District...

Neighbors, who asked not to be identified, said that the two houses on the property have had “problem tenants” for several years predating the tenancy of the arrested students, and the situation has prompted neighbors to make what they call “several complaints” to owner LeBlanc... The neighbors said that LeBlanc has been unresponsive to their concerns, and said they are now working with “city authorities” to try to get her to release the property.

LeBlanc did not return telephone calls in regards to this article.

I hope Cynthia is a better Chief Academic Officer than she is a landlord. The article also has some Beetleworthy quotations:

But although residents say they were unaware of any illegal activities on the property, several of them said that in hindsight, they should have been.

“Now I kick myself, because I didn’t pay attention that I never saw them walking down the street with a backpack or anything,” one woman said. “How could they be college students?”

She said she also should have been suspicious that “they spent a lot of time at home during the day, watching television. Actually, it was pretty quiet over there. Maybe it was too quiet.”

I don't use a backpack, maybe I'm a drug dealer... Finally, CalStuff is proud to bring you a picture of the drug den (via the BDP) that has been terrorizing local families ("One woman described the students as 'really rough people' who generated complaints from other residents"):

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