A University student’s December suicide led to the drug-related arrests of four other University students.

According to police documents:

On Feb. 23, police went to the residence of University students Andrew Judson Hart, Roger Steven Willis and Adam Nicolas Grellinger to discuss the life and death of the deceased University student, Michael Roberds.

Grellinger answered the door, releasing the smell of marijuana from his home. There were three glass marijuana pipes and numerous nitrous oxide containers in plain view.

Because of the illegal drugs the police saw when they went to the house, the officers secured the scene and filed a warrant. The warrant was issued immediately.

When searching the home, officers found nitrous oxide containers, marijuana, pills, mushrooms, ecstacy, smoking devices, a gas mask, whippets and items associated with drug distribution such as scales, packaging materials, a grinder, cash and records of illegal drug transactions.

In total,133 drug-related items were found.

Willis was charged with three felonies: possession of nitrous oxide with intent to sell, possession of schedule I controlled substance and possession schedule II of a controlled substance.

Hart and Grellinger were charged with felony possession of nitrous oxide with intent to sell and misdemeanor possession of marijuana.

University student Janelle Colette Rivard, who was at the house at the time, was charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana.

The police initially contacted Hart, Willis and Grellinger because of a request from the deceased student’s father.

Tom Roberds gave the police a list of names and addresses of his son’s friends and co-workers so the police could look into possible drug activity.

Michael Todd Roberds, 22, died at 1:50 a.m. from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest on Dec. 19. 2008, according to the Athens-Clarke County coroner’s office. Roberds was a biology major from Kennesaw.

“In the end, I think that Mike was disappointed that his great gifts of character – his facile intelligence, lack guile and instinctive generosity – were not necessarily the qualities that the adult world would always place much value on,” Tom Roberds wrote in the eulogy. “Had his gifts not been so great, his disappointment likely would not have been so deep.”

Friends described Roberds as the one who could always make them laugh.

When contacted by The Red & Black, Grellinger declined to comment. Hart, Willis, Rivard and the Roberds family could not be reached as of Monday night.