Two men were arrested outside of Nagel and Nelson Halls last Tuesday and charged with possession with the intent to distribute drugs, according to a campus safety official.

“They did have some pretty hard drugs on them,” said Tyrone Mills, associate director of Campus Safety.

The drugs included ecstasy, heroine and hallucinogenic mushrooms as well as paraphernalia.

Neither of them were affiliated with the University of Denver.

Billy Cardenas, Campus Safety investigator, gave the following account just after the incident occurred on Sept. 23:

A DU student called Campus Safety at 5:28 p.m. to report that two males approached him and asked if he wanted to buy ecstasy from them.

Denver police searched the suspects’ possessions and found hypodermic needles as well as spoons, which are used to liquefy heroin in order to inject it.

Both males were adults and appeared to be homeless. One already had a warrant out for his arrest.

The two suspects were put into separate police cars, which left the scene about an hour later.

“These individuals we believe wandered onto our campus,” Mills said. “We believe they’d been sleeping out on the street for a while.”

Mills said arrests for attempting to sell drugs are extremely rare at DU.

“That is not consistent here at all,” he said. “We have not had anything like that.”