Penn State frat coke ring’s alleged ringleader denied bail after missing arraignment, turning himself in
The alleged ringleader of a Penn State University fraternity cocaine distribution ring is now in custody.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced that Agostino Abbatiello, 24, from Westbury, New York, turned himself in Tuesday morning.
The suspect was arraigned by a judge on “numerous felonies” and was denied bail after the attorney general said he failed to appear for his scheduled arraignment on Monday.
Abbatiello was among 13 other men who were charged with offenses in the case.
He and his family live in the affluent Westbury village community on Long Island.
A man who identified himself as Abbatiello’s father, Mario, briefly spoke with reporters at the family home Tuesday after asking for their cameras to be turned away.
“I have no comment,” he said, instead deferring to his son’s attorney, whose name he gave as Phillip Misorti. “We have no comment,” he said.
Fox News Digital spoke to neighbors Abbatiello family home. One person told said that Abbatiello’s father owns an asphalt business and the family has been well off.
“He had a good job in accounting, his father said he had a nice job in accounting,” he said. “He was doing well.”
Abbatiello had two other siblings around the same age, he added, who may have been a little spoiled.
“They were all taken care of, spoon-fed,” he said. “They weren’t the kind of kids to take the garbage out or shovel the snow.”
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