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East Village Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Cocaine to Alleged Columbia Drug Dealers

By DNAinfo Staff on March 15, 2011 9:17pm  | Updated on March 15, 2011 9:16pm

By Shayna Jacobs

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — An East Village man pleaded guilty Tuesday in connection to funneling drugs to five Columbia University students who are accused of being frathouse drug dealers, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Miron Syrzynski, 24, admitted to selling cocaine as part of 'Operation Ivy League,' in which the promising students were also nabbed after an investigation by the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor and the NYPD.

He also pleaded guilty to plotting to hold a pair of rival dealers for ransom in Queens and threatening to force an LSD overdose on the would-be victims.

Syrzynski's girlfriend, Megan Asper, 22, also pleaded guilty to possession of LSD, which was found in their apartment at 430 East 6th St.

The admitted supplier was promised a sentence of six years in prison plus five years post-release supervision. Asper is expected to be sentenced to 45 days in jail when they're next before the judge on April 26.

Charges against a third alleged supplier, Roberto Lagares, of Brooklyn, are still pending.

'Operation Ivy' students Chris Coles, Harrison David, Adam Klein and Joseph Stephen Perez, all 20, and Michael Wymbs, 22, were arrested in early morning raid on Dec. 7, 2010.

They have retained high-profile defense counsel and are fighting the charges separately in Manhattan Supreme Court. 

They allegedly dealt MDMA, Ecstasy, LSD, Adderall and marijuana out of their dorm rooms or at the Pi Kappa Alpha, Psi Upsilon and Alpha Epsilon Pi houses, authorities said.

Prosecutors said undercover agents bought nearly $11,000 in drugs from the students on campus between July and December last year.

The students are due back in court on April 5.