Former Student Faces Felonies for Allegedly Selling Drugs to Police Informant

A former Penn State student faces felony charges after allegedly selling marijuana to a police informant.

The State College Police Department was first contacted by a confidential informant in February 2013, alleging that Alexzander Rubin, 23 of Phoenixville, was selling marijuana in State College, according to the criminal complaint. Though the informant had never purchased anything from Rubin, he had allegedly offered to sell the informant marijuana and provided him with his cell phone number.

Police were able to confirm that Rubin was a Penn State student at the time though the university directory, and were able to identify him from a Pennsylvania Driver’s License with the informant’s help. Over the next two months, police would work with the informant to plan three separate controlled purchases of marijuana, according to the complaint.

Between March and April of 2013, police were reportedly able to obtain over an ounce of marijuana from Rubin with the help of their informant, who purchased the drugs with money provided by the police department. Police were able to uses these purchases to obtain a search warrant for Rubin’s apartment, which they searched in April 2013.

Police reportedly recovered nearly three ounces of marijuana and hashish from the apartment, as well as two sheets of LSD, ecstasy, assorted drug paraphernalia and a handful of unidentified pills.

Rubin faces three felony charges of possession with intent to deliver, two felony charges of criminal use of communication facility and two misdemeanor charges of possession. He has been released on $50,000 bail.

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