Police: 'It's very normal for band equipment to be seized'
EUGENE, Ore. - Police stand by arrests and evidence seizures at a party last Friday night near the University of Oregon campus.
Police arrested almost two dozens people at the Campbell Club and seized equipment from the band performing at the party.
The band questioned why their gear was seized, but police said it's not out of the ordinary.
"It's very normal for band equipment to be seized in egregious cases of prohibited noise," Lt. Doug Mozan with the Eugene Police Department said. "I've personally seized that equipment a number of times."
Mozan does not know when the bands instruments will be returned
He also said officers stand by their narrative of events, which includes allegations that someone grabbed an officer.
"I understand one officer was grabbed and actually pulled into the Campbell Club, the front door of the house," Mozan said. "Other people are alleged to have tried to close the door in between responding police officers and the officer that was held against his will."
Police could not explain why partygoers did not face more serious charges if an officer was held against his will.
LOL! Why would anyone try and pull an officer inside a house that residents fought so hard to maintain the privacy of?
@Tony Svensson ---maybe the party goers thought he was an exotic male dancer, who was hired to perform the gag/gig of a police officer. Stranger stunts have been pulled on Valentine's Day.
@Tony Svensson And why did it not result in any charges? Something stinks here...
Nothing but a power pull!!!
They have plenty of man power to take the time to seize all this band equipment and to take the time to store it but they don't have the money to keep crimnals in jail, maybe thats why, the space is fiiled up with seized items.
@native The jail is Lane County. These were City police officers. I see your point, but they're not the same agency, and don't share the same budget. I think the real story should be about how an officer was 'pulled' in and 'held against his will' and no charges related to said crime were ever filed. Sounds like it never happened to me.
So who's playing in their party this weekend?  Hope they didn't seize all six kegs; those deposits are expensive!
"Very Normal"......Jawohl