How Penn State’s ‘Pablo Pledgescobar’ – a dean’s list accounting blogger and alleged cocaine kingpin – was caught in frat-house sting
- The alleged kingpin of a student drug ring at Pennsylvania State University is being mocked online after being locked up without bail following a sting operation in an off-campus fraternity house.
- Agostino Abbatiello, 24, was dubbed “Pablo Pledgescobar” by the online prediction market Polymarket over allegations that aspiring fraternity brothers cut and bagged cocaine that was later sold to Penn State students and others in 2023 and 2024.
- The nickname quickly lit up the internet, with countless social media users riffing on the play on words involving the name of the late drug lord Pablo Escobar
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- The alleged kingpin of a student drug ring at Pennsylvania State University is being mocked online after being locked up without bail following a sting operation in an off-campus fraternity house.
- Agostino Abbatiello, 24, was dubbed “Pablo Pledgescobar” by the online prediction market Polymarket over allegations that aspiring fraternity brothers cut and bagged cocaine that was later sold to Penn State students and others in 2023 and 2024.
- The nickname quickly lit up the internet, with countless social media users riffing on the play on words involving the name of the late drug lord Pablo Escobar
Sources: The Independent