Marijuana Count Brings Heavy Bonds

Marijuana Count Brings Heavy Bonds

Two University students who were among a dozen persons picked up last month by federal narcotics agents and city police detectives in a series of arrests in southeast Michigan communities are in the Washtenaw County Jail today under heavy bonds.

Mark G. Connard, 20, and Robert R. Deresz, 18, both residents of the Chi Phi fraternity house at 1530 Washtenaw Ave., are charged with the sale of marijuana.

They were arraigned yesterday before District Court Judge S. J. Elden who ordered them to reappear April 14 when an examination date on the felony charge will be set.

The judge remanded both students to jail when they were unable to post bonds of $10,000 each.

Ann Arbor Police Chef Walter E. Krasny said Connard and Deresz, both sophomores in the University’s College of Engineering, were originally arrested by his department’s detectives and federal agents on March 11. The chief said the students sold hashish to detectives and were immediately taken into custody.

They were released, however, pending a laboratory analysis of the material which they had sold the officers, Chief Krasny said.

When the report was returned which verified that the material was hashish the warrants for Connard and Deresz were served.

The chief said the students are among a dozen persons apprehended by federal and local authorities who conducted a months-long investigation into narcotic traffic throughout southeast Michigan.

Grosse Pointe Farms police said today they have a warrant for Deresz charging him with sale of LSD. A “hold” has been placed on the student by Grosse Pointe Farms officers who are scheduled to pick him up from the County Jail here if he posts the $10,000 bond.

Chief Krasny said his detectives are continuing an investigation into drug traffic in the Ann Arbor area.