"Preppie Killer" Busted On Drug Charges

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.