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Show Charges Levied Against Big Crowd Following Weekend Party Bust Utah Highway Patrci Troopers Bruce Black an.l Melvin Schiffman, aided by Moab City Police officers offi-cers Larry Rowley, Mike Humner, Doug Bohn and Chief Melvin Dalton, along al-ong with County Commissioner Commis-sioner Dan Holyoak, Friday Fri-day evening raided a par. ty along the Potash highway high-way and arrested 42 ad- ults and juveniles for being be-ing knowingly present where dru.es were being used." Of this group, seven were later released for insufficient in-sufficient evidence. Chief Dalton stated that he had received word early ear-ly in the day that this party would be held and that about 15 lids of marijuana mar-ijuana and 80 hits of mescaline would be or. hand at the party which was also labeled as a "beer bust." Drugs, stated Dalton, were the main reason the party was raided. raid-ed. At the party, drugs beer and hard liquor werci confiscated and Dalton stated that several of th'j persons present were too drunk or "stoned" to recognize rec-ognize the men as police officers. The persons present at the party ranged in ag? from junior high school to about 27, including several sever-al persons who have been convicted on prior drug violations. Officers collected seven different samples including includ-ing one lid of marijuana which was nearly full, one half full lid of marijuana and several plastic bags wheh contained mari juana residue. Those present waro charged Tuesday by County Coun-ty Attorney Harry Snow with visiting a place wrer narcotics are being unlawfully un-lawfully used. Charged under the Utal Code 58-13a 31.1 were: adults, Kevin Anderson, Dennis Bailey, Bruce Beck, Jim Cowan, John Cowan, Warren Domenick, Bob Edwards, Ed-wards, Mike Evans, Brent Foy, Ken Hoffman, Jul; i Inskeep, Sam McDougall, John McFarland, Brandon Merritt, Robert Ossana, Jim Palmer, Tom Richards, Barbara Schraft, Pat Vn-ger, Vn-ger, and Tom Updike. Juveniles: Mariannci Bowthorpe, Liz Godfrey, Betty Gordon, Sandy Hirs-. irln-FnTA Hi-ni T-.T Kirk Loveridge, Chad. Lu'hrs, Gil McDougald, Tim Meadors, Dan Pilling, Rhonda Sebastian, Je.111 Anne Shatley, Jeanne Trusty, Trus-ty, Richard Wood and Kay Yama. |