University of Wisconsin police and the U.S. Postal Service combined their efforts Monday morning in the arrest of a UW student suspected of dealing drugs out of his apartment, according to police.
Bradley Sills, who lives on the 500 block of University Avenue in the Embassy apartment complex, was charged with maintaining a drug dwelling, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, and possession of psylocibin mushrooms with intent to distribute, said detective Carol Ann Glassmaker of the UW Police, who described Sill’s arrest as “a result of bits and pieces put together through various agencies.”
Glassmaker said police found more than an ounce of both mushrooms and marijuana.
If convicted of the charges, all three of which are classified as felonies, Sills, currently booked into the Dane County Jail, could face seven to 10 years in prison, Glassmaker said.
Police said the U.S. Postal Service assisted in the bust but would not specify how the agency was involved.
The arrest comes just three days after three UW students convicted on drug charges were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 37 to 65 months.
The three were arrested in April after federal agents tied them to a drug ring responsible for distributing over 100,000 ecstasy pills over a two-year period.
The arrest prompted local authorities to pay closer attention to drug distribution and use around the campus area.
“That bust was a wake-up call for all of us,” Capt. Dale Burke of the UW Police said.
Ashkan Faradieh, one of the three recently sentenced to prison terms, wrote a letter to the Badger Herald several days before his sentencing, pleading for students to consider the consequences of becoming involved in drug trafficking.
“I am writing this letter from the Dane County Jail. When I leave here after my sentencing Nov. 22, I am not going home to my family or to graduate school or to my first good job. I am going to a federal prison,” Faradieh’s letter read. “I am writing this letter with the hope that I can dissuade at least one young person from making the same mistakes that I did.”
Sills’ bail hearing is set for Wednesday.
