February 11, 2009 3:59 PM

"Preppie Killer" Busted On Drug Charges

(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.

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by yoopermom October 24, 2007 1:38 PM EDT
Sad thing is, he will probably get more time for the Drug bust than he did for murder.
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by gmond October 24, 2007 3:12 AM EDT
Nancy, you really are naive. Try looking in a dictionary before you try looking smart.
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by kailumego1 October 24, 2007 12:05 AM EDT
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..



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by sendreidpelo October 23, 2007 11:55 PM EDT
Get a Rope!
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by keithle1 October 23, 2007 11:05 PM EDT
Be more careful who you go out with ladies. Ted Bundy was very charming.
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by badmofojim October 23, 2007 8:08 PM EDT
He trys too hard to look like bad arse. ITS FUNNY.
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by Krazcarl October 23, 2007 6:49 PM EDT
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.
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by toolmangler-2009 October 23, 2007 6:03 PM EDT
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!!!!!!!!!!!!
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by gmond October 23, 2007 3:56 PM EDT
The correct word is indiscreet, not indiscrete. Why do literate corporations always wind up with illiterate websites?
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by cosmicfluke October 23, 2007 3:48 PM EDT
this guy should''ve been strangled 23 years ago
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