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Almost 50 members of a College of New Hampshire fraternity face warrants for his or her arrests amid an investigation of alleged hazing.

The Durham Police Division issued the arrest warrants charging the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and 46 of its members for hazing on Tuesday. The college mentioned it contacted DPD on April 18 relating to a attainable hazing occasion on the fraternity, and a subsequent police investigation discovered possible trigger that hazing occurred at an April 13 occasion involving new members, based on a DPD press launch Friday.

Authorities haven’t launched any particulars on the character of the hazing or what prompted the allegations.

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“We had been made conscious of the incident by the fraternity’s nationwide headquarters and instantly notified the Durham Police Division,” a press release from UNH spokeswoman Erika Mantz learn. “We’ve got cooperated with police all through the investigation, and the fraternity was interim suspended pending the result of the police investigation. We take any allegation of hazing very significantly, and now that the police investigation is full, we will likely be initiating a proper conduct course of.”

Solely 10 members of the fraternity had been arrested as of Friday. They’ve since been launched and are due in courtroom on July 13, based on WMUR9.

The nationwide Sigma Alpha Epsilon group started its personal inquiry on the purported incident after changing into conscious of the scenario, nevertheless it paused its investigation after native authorities obtained concerned. The group mentioned it was totally cooperating with police and likewise issued a cease-and-desist to the chapter, a press release from the group learn.

“Sigma Alpha Epsilon denounces all acts of hazing and misconduct that don’t signify the Fraternity’s values outlined by our creed, The True Gentleman,” the assertion learn.

Pupil hazing is outlined by the DPD as a category B misdemeanor punishable by a superb costing as much as $1,200 per particular person or a misdemeanor punishable by a superb as much as $20,000 per group.

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The College of New Hampshire didn’t reply to the Washington Examiner’s request for remark.