College Student Seized on Drug Manufacturing Charge
A 20-year-old chemistry student at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont has been arrested on suspicion of manufacturing methamphetamines with a portable laboratory that was seized from his dormitory room, police said.
Steve Leichty of Littleton, Colo., was booked at the San Bernardino County sheriff’s jail in Ontario after a three-week investigation by local police and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, said Claremont Police Department Agent George Dynes.
More than 64 ounces of methamphetamine liquid, with an estimated street value of $100,000, was confiscated, along with five gallons of ether allegedly used to manufacture the drug, officers said. Leichty, who has been indefinitely suspended from the college, was released on $20,000 bail.
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