When parents are away, kids will play with drugs and alcohol, Gwinnett police learned.
The night before a shooting at a "Sweet 16" party on Lock Ness Lane near Snellville, police were called to another house nearby, in the 2700 block English Saddle Court, for a loud teenage party.
Just after 11 p.m. on Feb. 18, a Gwinnett County police officer was dispatched to investigate a report of “a large party where several people were screaming at [each] other to get inside. The complainant observed people with guns and Tasers.
“I could hear music blasting loud bass in the background… Several vehicles were leaving to and fro. There were approximately 30 cars parked along the side of the road. When we pulled up ... several people ran inside. There was a strong odor of alcoholic beverages and marijuana coming from the residence. I observed several younger looking people drinking alcoholic beverages inside,” the officer wrote in a report.
Officer D.A. Ondic then knocked on the door.
Shadea Curry answered.
Curry, 18, said her mother had said she could have a “few” friends over but she also was "extremely rude and non-compliant with my investigation,” Ondic wrote.
“I asked her about the odor of marijuana and alcoholic beverages. She replied she neither had any drinks or smoked any drugs. She denied knowledge of both even though her yard and cul-de-sac were littered with alcohol cans," Ondic wrote.
Juveniles had access to marijuana and booze and the party was “out of control,” Ondic wrote in listing reasons for arresting Curry, who apparently was the only person taken into custody that night.
Other reasons were “the fact the suspect allowed her residence to be used as a safe-haven for drinking and drugs and the fact that underage people were present.”
Curry was taken to Gwinnett County’s jail on charges of maintaining a disorderly house and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
And when her mother came to fetch Curry, Ondic wrote, the mother “denied any knowledge of the house party.”
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