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A group of drug dealers at San Diego State University was rounded up by authorities Tuesday after the conclusion of a successful sting operation that included monitoring text messages advertising drug sales and price drops to “faithful customers.”

One of the captured text messages was sent to an undercover drug enforcement agent. It said the drug dealing students were having a price special since they’d be going out of town on a trip to Las Vegas. (How’s that for customer service?)

Many of those swept up by the year-long sting were members of a fraternity, Theta Chi, and some were even criminal justice and homeland security majors. The net result of the sting arrests and drug seizures? Two kilograms of cocaine, 350 Ecstasy pills, marijuana, psychedelic mushrooms, hash oil, methamphetamine, illicit prescription drugs, several guns and at least $60,000 in cash. Of the 96 people arrested, 75 were students. Five other fraternities besides Theta Chi are also implicated.

Whatever happened to good old fashioned fraternity traditions like hazing and alcohol poisoning? The sting itself was launched after the fatal cocaine overdose of a student last May.

Here at Switched, we applaud small business people and entrepreneurs everywhere for using technology - such as text messaging - to improve customer service. Is there a group of college students out there who have put this kind of mobile tech to good use - or is this ring of drug dealers the only one that has tapped into the tech [Source: MSNBC via Textually.org]

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