Student indicted for 'Banana Plug' drug dealing app

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This undated photo released by the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office shows Collin Howard, a University of California, Santa Cruz student, who is facing felony charges for allegedly creating an iPhone app he dubbed the Banana Plug to sell illicit drugs. (Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office via AP)

An 18 year old UC Santa Cruz student became the banana slug with the plug, creating an iPhone app that facilitated the sale of contraband and drugs that included cocaine, “Molly” and “Shrooms,” authorities said Tuesday.

Collin Riley Howard, of Sunnyvale, was indicted on one count of distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and three counts of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, after he allegedly sold drugs to an undercover Homeland Security Investigations agent on multiple occasions.

Rather than attempting to keep the illicit operations under the radar, authorities said, Howard built an app called the "Banana Plug," a reference to UC Santa Cruz’s banana slugs mascot, while also employing the term “plug,” which is slang for drug dealer.

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