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WEBVTT SAYING AND ITRECENTLY LANDED SOMEONE IN JAIL.21-YEAR-OLD ROBERT KNEELS LIFEJUST TOOK A TURN MOST PARENTSWOULD NOT WANT TO IMAGINE.>> SEES ACCUSED OF PUTTING WHITEPOWDER INTO THREE DIFFERENTGIRLS DRINKS.>> KELLER BLACKBURN SAYS ABARTENDER CAUGHT A GLIMPSE OFWHAT WAS GOING ON.>> ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES SAWSOMETHING WRONG.THEY IMMEDIATELY CONFRONTED HIMAND GOT THE TWO GIRLS HELP.>> NEWS 5 HAS LEARNED HE WAS NOLONGER A STUDENT.HE HAD ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITYUNTIL THE FALL OF 2016 WHEN HEWAS INDICTED FOR POSSESSION OFCOCAINE IN JACKSON COUNTY.POLICE REPORTS SHOW TROOPERSPULLED NEIL OVER AS HE WASTRAVELING BACK TO ATHENS FROMHIS PARENTS HOUSE.HE'S ACCUSED OF HAVING 25 GRAMSOF COCAINE ON HIM.THAT CASE IS PENDING.THERE'S A LARGE-SCALE DRUGPROBLEM IN THE COLLEGECOMMUNITY.ONE HE IS TRYING TO CHANGE.>> THERE'S A LOT OF MOLLY ANDCOCAINE.THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF HEROIN.THEY ARE TRYING TO A CHANGE THECULTURE BUT IT IS DEFINITELY ACONCERN.>> THE PROSECUTOR SAYS THEYSERVED A SEARCH WARRANT.SEVERAL PEOPLE WERE IN THEAPARTMENT.

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A 2013 Mason High School graduate is accused of slipping drugs into girls' drinks near Ohio University in Athens. Robert Neal, 21, is charged with two counts of corrupting another with drugs. "Mr. Neal is accused of putting white powder, which we believe to be Molly, into three different girls' shots at a bar in the early evening hours of February first," Athens County prosecutor Keller Blackburn said. Blackburn wouldn't name the bar, but said the bartender caught a glimpse of what had happened. "Luckily, the bar did an amazing job. One of the employees there saw something wrong and stopped the one girl from taking the shot, couldn't stop the other two, immediately confronted him, got him thrown out of the bar and immediately got the two girls help," Blackburn said. The prosecutor said investigators searched Neal's apartment, and more charges could filed in this case. "We searched an apartment that night in relation to this case, in which when we got inside the apartment, there's five different residents and there's marijuana residue, bongs all over the living room and multiple people admitted to purchasing Xanax from an individual that evening. It's just becoming too normalized," Blackburn said. Neal attended OU between the Fall of 2013 and the Fall of 2016, according to the university. A spokesperson could not comment on why he was no longer a student. WLWT has learned that Neal was indicted in Jackson County for possession of cocaine in Oct. 2016. Police reports obtained by WLWT show troopers pulled Neal over last February as he was "traveling back to Athens from his parents' house" in Mason. The police report states that the trooper found a bag containing white powder in the door. Neal admitted the substance was cocaine, according to the report. The trooper wrote in the report that Neal "advised that his birthday was tomorrow and that he was planning on having a party with it." Neal is accused of having more than 25 grams of cocaine in the car with him. That case is still pending in the Jackson County courts. The Athens County prosecutor said there's a large-scale drug problem in the college community. It's one he said he is is trying to change. "There's a lot of Xanax and alcohol being mixed, there's a lot of Mollys, there's a lot of cocaine and there's a little bit of heroin, and so my office is doing anything we can to try to change the culture, but it's definitely a concern," Blackburn said. WLWT tried reaching out to Neal's parents in Mason. No one answered the door.Neal's attorney did not return a call for comment.