U. Minnesota Wrestlers in Hot Water Over Drug Investigation
Some guys on the school’s wrestling team are alleged to be using and selling drugs. Big trouble.
FOX News reports.
Drug investigation ensnares University of Minnesota wrestlers
The University of Minnesota police department is investigating allegations that several Golden Gophers wrestlers have been involved in selling and using drugs.
The school has provided information to the police for use in the investigation, a university spokesman said Thursday.
The Star Tribune of Minneapolis quoted an anonymous wrestler on the team who said coach J Robinson found out about the wrestlers’ plans to sell the anti-anxiety prescription drug Xanax. The newspaper reports that Robinson collected about 1,400 pills from his wrestlers and did not report the issue to the university or to the police.
“The university takes allegations of this nature seriously, and upon receiving information the university provided it to UMPD,” Minnesota spokesman Evan Lapiska said. “In consultation with UMPD, the university is allowing for the legal investigation to conclude before conducting its own internal investigation.”
Robinson has spent 30 years coaching the Gophers wrestlers and has won three national championships. The Associated Press left a message with him seeking comment.
It’s the latest troubling allegation to emerge from the Gophers athletic department. Former athletic director Norwood Teague resigned in disgrace last year after a sexual harassment scandal, the men’s basketball team has dealt with several off-the-court incidents with its players and the school hired Syracuse athletic director Mark Coyle earlier this month to clean up the mess.