"There is a panoply of drugs out there that will destroy your kids," says retired NYPD inspector and Fox News contributor Paul Mauro.Following recent college deaths and allegations around a campus cocaine trafficking ring, Mauro said America's students are now the primary prey for a relentless and deadly drug trade."If you're sending a kid off to college these days, you better sit that child down and give that child a hard primer on what could possibly happen," he said.A recently unsealed indictment shows Moises Freire, 19, and Brian Peralta, 18, both from Queens, New York, are facing charges after a young woman was killed and another seriously injured after they were allegedly poisoned by fentanyl.A student was killed in an FIT dorm room after a suspect poisoned her with fentanyl, prosecutors say.(Getty Images: Universal Images Group)Reports indicate Annabel Richter, 20, was killed after she ingested the drug supplied by the men, who allegedly told her it was simply "cocaine."She had moved from Brazil to live in the U.S.
to pursue her studies at Manhattan's Fashion Institute of Technology, the New York Post reported.She was found unresponsive with another female victim in a dorm room.According to the federal indictment, Freire allegedly raped the victim and "waited approximately 45 minutes to contact campus security" about the women being unconscious.Pills containing fentanyl are displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Northeast Regional Laboratory for testing in New York, on May 7, 2026.
(Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images)Mauro questioned why there wasn't more media attention on the case."It happened on a campus and the only thing I can conjure is that it happened in New York City, and so the powers that be as we come into an election season would rather these rape stories or these campus crime stories occur someplace far from New York where they could have any impact on the elections here," he said.The indictment also alleges Freire texted phot...