Two FIT students held on drug charges after selling drugs to undercover cop

ANDREW S. GARIB and ALISON GENDAR, The New York Daily News | Link | Two aspiring fashionistas at Manhattan’s prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology were busted Wednesday night for selling cocaine outside their pricey college dorm, police said.

Mickenzie Dippenworth, 21, of Bel Air, Md., and her roommate, Christine Scafa, 22, of Princeton Junction, N.J., allegedly teamed up with a local dealer, Raymond Alameda, and together sold at least half an ounce of coke to undercover cops, police said.

The women left the 7th Precinct stationhouse on their way to arraignment last night laughing, wisecracking and apparently clueless about how much trouble they were in.

"Who do you think I am, Plaxico Burress?" Scafa quipped to journalists taking photos and firing questions at her.

Asked if she’d be going back to school, she gave a wouldn’t-you-like-to-know smirk and mumbled something unintelligible.

Dippenworth, who looked surprised, yet amused, by all of the attention, gestured to the group and asked, "Are you serious?"

Alameda just scowled and kept his head down.

Dippenworth allegedly made the mistake of first hawking drugs to an undercover cop last month at the trendy W.27th St. club Home.

"She told the undercover she could get whatever was needed," said Lt. Brian Murphy of NYPD’s vice club initiative.

Undercover investigators then made seven more buys from the two women, or their supplier, police said.

All those buys took place outside the women’s FIT dorm on W. 31st St. Room and board at any of FIT’s Manhattan dorms runs about $10,000 a year—on top of the roughly $11,000 a year tuition at the State University of New York institute.

Investigators didn’t know how the two women met Alameda, although he lived nearby on W. 27th St. and catered to the club crowd the two women ran with.

Alameda’s eight prior arrests include a charge of attempted murder as a teenager, sources said.

When Alameda was arrested Wednesday morning, cops seized his 2007 Chrysler and $1,300 in cash from his pockets.

Scafa is a senior who was set to graduate in May. All three face drug possession and sale charges.

At the school Wednesday night, 20-year-old sophomore Kim Hulse said, "It’s sad to hear people are selling coke here. I’ve had too many friends who’ve gone down because of it with ruined lives and squandered potential. "If you’re going here, you obviously want to do something with your life—to get big, and that kind of thing can mess up your life really badly."

agendar@nydailynews.com

With Andrew S. Garib End.