UC Santa Cruz student indicted, accused of developing ‘Banana Plug’ app to sell cocaine and meth

In a drug-peddling scheme that prosecutors say was so brazen that he advertised with posters around campus, an 18-year-old UC Santa Cruz student designed an app dubbed “Banana Plug” and used it to sell cocaine and methamphetamine.

Collin Riley Howard, of Sunnyvale, was indicted by a federal grand…