Three arrested in DMT lab bust at Georgetown dorm

Police arrested three college freshmen after campus cops discovered they had converted a Georgetown University dorm room into a clandestine drug lab.

Cops and school officials said the students were using the room to create dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, a powerful hallucinogenic that is said to cause visions of alien encounters and trigger horrific, near-death sensations.

Early reports misidentified the room, located on the top floor of Georgetown's Harbin Hall, as a methamphetamine lab.

Georgetown freshmen John Romano and Charles Smith and University of Richmond freshman John Perrone were arrested and charged with manufacturing a controlled substance, according to NBC Washington.

Cops busted the dorm room drug den after a Harbin resident called campus police at around 5 a.m. to report a strange odor coming from room 926 on the top floor of the residence.

More than 400 bleary-eyed students were forced to evacuate the building at around 6 a.m. on Saturday while police and safety officials swept the building with drug-sniffing dogs.

Once in the room, cops found a stash of sketchy-looking chemicals and materials, including a glass jar with an unidentified red substance, mason jars containing a clear liquid, a turkey baster and black suitcase reeking of a strong, chemical smell, NBC reported.