**Death of Berkeley Student Leads to Major Drug Bust**

The Oakland Tribune has major news in the story about the death of Berkeley student Patrick McCann. In the article, "Roommates of dead student in drug bust", they report:

The mysterious death of a University of California, Berkeley student took a bizarre turn Tuesday when police announced that the dead man's roommates were keeping pounds of marijuana, narcotics, guns and stacks of suspected drug money at their South Berkeley residence.

Inside what appeared to be a bachelor pad for a group of twentysomethings, including four UC Berkeley students, was a sprawling marijuana-growing operation, a pharmacy of methadone and an organized drug-running operation that police called a sizable bust.

The article raises a number of questions, and answers some other things that had been unclear:

1) Police found their list of clients, which means that the cops now have information on potentially hundreds (or more) people who have bought drugs from the student dealers. And since they were all students, I think it's more than likely they had a large student client base.

2) This explains why his roommates drove him to the hospital instead of calling an ambulance. Inviting paramedics into your drug den is an unwise thing to do.

3) Police are still saying that McCann's death does not look like there was foul play involved, but early rumors of a drug-related death certainly seem more credible now.

More from the article:

[Police] also discovered "Pay-O" sheets for logging drug transactions, drug scales and lights, a 12-gauge shotgun, an assault rifle, two semiautomatic pistols and nearly $14,000 in cash, police said.

"[The bust] is pretty significant," [Berkeley Police spokesman Steve] Rego said. "I wouldn't say it happens very often. There was a lot of money, a lot of dope and a lot of guns in the house," he said.

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