DAMN! DEALING DOPE AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY! HAD $150,000 WORTH OF UNCUT PRODUCT WHEN SHE GOT CAUGHT!

A Cornell University student was busted with $150,000 worth of heroin over the weekend, the latest in a string of high-profile drug busts at prestigious universities.

Keri Blankinger, a 26-year-old senior, was caught apparently looking to deal nearly six ounces of uncut smack in a hotel parking lot on Sunday morning, The Cornell Daily Sun reported.

"The preliminary weight of the heroin indicates it may be the second largest seizure of the drug by the Ithaca Police Department since September of 2008," Deputy Ithaca Police Chief John Barber told the Ithaca Journal.

Blakinger was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, which is a felony, and she admitted to police that the dope was hers, the Journal reported.

Cops arrested Blakinger after a man who lives near the hotel called 911 to report a man and a woman acting suspicious in the parking lot.

The neighbor told the paper that he saw a man repeatedly getting in and out of a car and talking on a cell phone.

He also saw a woman holding a clear plastic container and a multi-day pill container, and he approached her after the man drove away.

"She appeared uncomfortable, uneasy, having a hard time standing still and of an altered state of mind," the neighbor told police.

A hotel employee also saw the young student acting bizarrely in the parking lot, police said.

When cops pulled up and Blakinger tried to ditch the container of dope under a parked car, the employee retrieved it and gave it to the police, the Journal reported.

Blakinger was arraigned in Ithaca City Court and was remanded to the Tompkins County Jail without bail, according to the statement

The Daily Sun said that Blakinger is a former staff writer and features editor for the student paper.

Blakinger's bust is the second big drug seizure involving an Ivy League school this month, and the third involving students at highly competitive universities in three months.

On Dec. 7, New York City police arrested five Columbia students for selling thousands of dollars worth of cocaine, LSD, marijuana, ecstasy and other drugs out of frat houses and dorms around campus.

In October, police in Washington, D.C., charged a freshman at Georgetown University and a friend with allegedly converting a dorm room into a drug lab to produce a potent hallucinogenic.


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