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Michigan State University seemingly can’t get any positive PR right now. And, things are only going to get worse on that front after a Michigan State professor was found out to have previously convicted for helping to manufacture methamphetamine in Louisiana.
And, to make the story even better, it was students in his own class that realized their professor’s sordid past. Here’s FOX 17 with more.
Brendan Doyle was charged back in 2020 for allegedly helping run a meth lab.
The arrest happened in Louisiana.
This fall, Doyle started teaching at MSU.
Doyle appeared in a press release from a Louisiana sheriff’s office in May 2020.
He was charged with the creation or operation of a clandestine laboratory for the unlawful manufacture of a controlled dangerous substance.
The university says nothing of the sort showed up on a background check.
FOX 17 spoke to one of Brendan Doyle’s former students on Wednesday about the discovery.
Brendan Doyle was charged back in 2020 for allegedly helping run a meth lab.
The arrest happened in Louisiana.
This fall, Doyle started teaching at MSU.
Doyle appeared in a press release from a Louisiana sheriff’s office in May 2020.
He was charged with the creation or operation of a clandestine laboratory for the unlawful manufacture of a controlled dangerous substance.
It’s the same man who was teaching Mackenzie Allbee’s class at MSU in fall 2023.
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“When I joined the GroupMe for homework help, I saw that there was an article about him. It had the picture of my professor,” Mackenzie Allbee said.
The picture was a mugshot of Doyle from when he was allegedly caught up in a meth-manufacturing scheme more than a thousand miles away.
Doyle taught kinesiology and an anatomy and physiology class.
“He was erratic and he just seemed, like, impatient,” Allbee said.
Doyle also had choice words for students, according to Allbee.
“When he yelled at us as if we were a high school class for talking, I just thought it was kind of unnecessary; like, when that happens in other classes at MSU, the professors don’t really make a big deal out of it; they just keep teaching the lecture. It was more distracting when he yelled at us than the actual talking,” Allbee said.
Doyle has been placed on leave by Michigan State and is no longer serving as a professor at the university.
Making meth is bad, and ruins a lot of people’s lives. But, this guy had a set of balls on him to just completely ignore his conviction that landed him in jail for 90 days and carry on like everything was fine.
Do you think he got his inspiration from science teacher-turned meth manufacturer Walter White of the all-time great great television show ‘Breaking Bad’? Almost certainly, right?
Also, what kind of professor freaks out about some light chatter during lecture? If he didn’t do that, he may have never been found out and would still probably be a Michigan State professor.