"Preppie Killer" Busted On Drug Charges

NYC Cops: Man Who Strangled Young Woman In Central Park Dealt Cocaine From Apartment

(CBS/AP)  The so-called "Preppie Killer," who served 15 years in prison for strangling a woman in Central Park, was arrested Monday on charges of selling drugs and resisting arrest.

A police source told the New York Daily News that Robert Chambers, 41, had sold enough cocaine "to levitate Central Park."

Chambers' arrest stemmed from an undercover operation in which drugs, including cocaine, were purchased from him at his apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side, police said. They said he struggled with officers during his arrest.

The Daily News said police had noted heavy drug traffic at the apartment in recent months. Undercover officers allegedly purchased a little more than a half pound of cocaine from Chambers.

Chambers and his girlfriend, Shawn Kovell, are accused of making a total of eight sales to cops posing as small-time drug dealers, the newspaper said.

"There was considerable traffic to his door," police spokesman Paul Browne said. "He was pretty indiscrete about it."

Chambers was charged with several counts of criminal sale of controlled substances and resisting arrest.

Chambers was released from prison on Valentine's Day 2003 after serving 15 years for the 1986 strangling of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin during a tryst in Central Park.

Police arrested Chambers in 2004 for misdemeanor heroin possession and unlicensed driving. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 100 days in jail and ordered to pay a $200 fine.

A message left early Tuesday for the state Division of Parole inquiring about Chambers' status was not immediately returned.

[shortyinmo]

Guy was a scum bag then and still is! Sad thing is he will probably get more time for selling drugs than he served for killing that young woman.

[fibonacci_]

Why on earth is this guy out walking the streets?

[njman4]

Drug dealers and armed criminals should be executed. Why are we concerned about keeping this criminal trash alive?

[cheddarboy82]

sounds like a pretty cool guy.

[caldwellptr]

I''d like to see Central Park levitate.

[connapa]

I thought that ANY criminal charge- even simple possession- was a parole violation. He should have been sent back to prison in 2004, if he was on parole at the time. They didn''t need to actually purchase the stuff. Just by him having it, that should have been an automatic parole violation.

[cosmicfluke]

this guy should''ve been strangled 23 years ago

[gmond]

The correct word is indiscreet, not indiscrete. Why do literate corporations always wind up with illiterate websites?

[toolmangler-2009]

Why on earth is this guy out walking the streets?
Posted by fibonacci_ at 09:59 AM : Oct 23, 2007


You can get life for molesting (not raping) a child but only 15 years for murder of an adult?
ssssshhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssshhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Krazcarl]

Well you put a young man in prison for 15 years he gets out resorts to crime for a buck it''s mot like he was high on anyone list to hire it''s really not surprising remember we warehouse criminals we don''t rehabilitate and yes more often than not it bites us on the hinny. It happens every day the only solution is intense rehabilitation but that will never be done so expect more.

[badmofojim]

He trys too hard to look like bad arse. ITS FUNNY.

[keithle1]

Be more careful who you go out with ladies. Ted Bundy was very charming.

[sendreidpelo]

Get a Rope!

[kailumego1]

A wealthy suburbanite drug dealer how interesting, considering, with enough cocaine to levitate Central Park...

Wonder what/who suburbanites he''s peddling those drugs to?

He''ll beat the rap, money and status means everything in the U.S..

[gmond]

Nancy, you really are naive. Try looking in a dictionary before you try looking smart.

[yoopermom]

Sad thing is, he will probably get more time for the Drug bust than he did for murder.