Campus police at Cornell University in New York made a drug arrest at the embattled Chi Phi fraternity house on campus less than 24 hours before seven former members are accused in a new civil lawsuit of gang raping a female classmate, according to the school's crime blotter.
The sexual assault to university police on Nov. 8, telling investigators that she was attacked between 11 p.m. on Oct. 19 and 5:45 a.m. on Oct. 20.
In Doe's lawsuit, she also alleges she had been pressured into snorting ketamine.
Ketamine is an anesthetic with dissociative and hallucinogenic effects, according to the U.S. sex assault allegations to campus police, according to Doe's civil complaint.
Separately, vandals smashed windows and painted slogans in red at Day Hall, an administrative building, early Monday, according to images published by the Daily Sun.
"We understand the frustration and strong emotions being expressed across our community," Kyle Kimball, the school's vice president for university relations, told Fox News in a statement. "Those concerns deserve to be heard, but damaging property is not the answer. We are investigating the vandalism at Day Hall and will address it in accordance with University policy and applicable law."
Tompkins County prosecutors declined to file criminal charges after Doe first reported the incident to university police in 2024.
Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten has said Doe's November 2024 sworn statement did not allege that she was drugged against her will or gang raped and instead described her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as "voluntary, conscious, and consensual."
However, according to a local Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor last week to examine the allegations raised in Doe's lawsuit.
Jeremy Saland, the attorney for one of the former fraternity brothers named in the lawsuit, Scott Kretzschmar, told Fox News Digital that his client welcomes "a full and thorough investigation" into Doe's allegations.
"Fairness and justice demand it, and she deserves nothing less," Saland said. "Justice also requires that those entrusted with the investigation reach conclusions from the evidence, not from statements made before the evidence has been reviewed. Though Scott has never been accused of rape, he is confident that an objective and honest process will clear him of any criminal wrongdoing."
Fox News' Ashley Papa, Michael Dorgan and Michelle Langer contributed to this report.