Police: Nearly two dozen arrested for disorderly party
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EUGENE, Ore. -- Officers arrested 23 people at the Campbell Club co-op after they were called out to a noise complaint, Eugene Police said.
Officials said four officers went out to 16th and Alder at around 11:30 p.m. to follow up on a noise complaint. Officers arrived and said that there were around 200 people at the Campbell Club located at 1670 Alder Street.
The four officers tried talking to the residents on the front porch and a crowd of people surrounded them, Officials said.
Eugene Police Sergeant Larry Crompton said that the residents went inside the house shortly after and refused to comply with police officers.
While on the porch, one of the officers reported being grabbed from behind by someone in the crowd. Officials said the officers then called for backup.
"It's a terrible feeling when you have a mob, when your surrounded and people are pulling on you. I've been there before on party patrols… I tell ya, it can be frightening," said Sgt. Crompton.
Nearly ten more officers came out to the house at 16th and Alder to help with the disorderly people at the party, officers said.
Lee Anders, a student living at the house, told KVAL News they had a different take on the night's events.
"We were concerned that if people went outside they would be cited by the police," Andres said. "We were worried that if we opened up the door for people to go outside the police would come in and search our house before the warrant was present."
Officials got a search warrant, at which point the people inside opened the door voluntarily.
Alisha Kinlaw said that the Campbell Club was throwing a benefit for an on-campus organization by hosting a band.
"We are founded in cooperation, consent and being a safe space. I think those things were really disrupted last night by a lot of the aggression," said Kinlaw.
Police arrested 14 of the residents for prohibited noise. They were all booked at the Lane County Jail; six were charged with interfering with police and one also had a resisting arrest charge.
Officials said that 9 other residents arrested at the party received citations in lieu of custody for prohibited noise. Officers also cited 8 minors for minor in possession of alcohol.
After seeing the TV interview with Milhouse and Lisa on KVAL endless times, I am starting to sympathize with the students' side of the story. Â Â Â
It would shikle the tit out of me if they closed the university down and sent all these juvenial brats home. It seems they will never learn what life is about.
Dean Wormer: Greg, what is the worst fraternity on this campus?Â
Greg Marmalard: Well that would be hard to say, sir. They're each outstanding in their own way.Â
Dean  Wormer: Cut the horseshite, son. I've got their disciplinary files right here. Who dropped a whole truckload of fizzies into the varsity swim meet? Who delivered the medical school cadavers to the alumni dinner? Every Halloween, the trees are filled with underwear. Every spring, the toilets explode.Â
Greg Marmalard: You're talking about Delta, sir.Â
Dean Wormer: Of course I'm talking about Delta, you TWERP!Â
This party was not disorderly. The police actively escalated the event throughout the night, blocking the street with up to 14 patrol units and breaking down doors. It is uncertain whether the warrant covered this kind of search, as it was only for 'noise equipment,' which was, of course, in the living room.
Make it a dry zone within 30 miles of campus. Â When the mini marts downtown experimentally pulled cheap booze from their shelves, the homeless on the street had to go elsewhere to defecate on the sidewalks and get naked-tazer-arrested. Â These kids can't help themselves when under the influence, I should know.
Bang up job, cops. Â Little snots think they are too good for the gray bar hotel.
@Reis Kash ---they also think they are too good for WALLMART too.
Clasic case of "contempt of cop".
we have property very very close to campbell house.  They are dirt bags and a blight on the neighborhood and have been for the the past 30 years.  They over run the neighborhood and destroy other peoples property with their idea that everything is community property.
I'm glad that ALL those people got arrested and wished that more did and that police will arrest as many people as they can in the future. Â
Rotten ROTTEN stinking neighbors!
we had about 150 back in the days of the late 80s for Halloween parties. Never had police show up. But we only had a few kegs and refer (sensimillion). Don't know what those dam younger generations are doing now. But, if you want me to go under cover on Valentine' weekend, as vigilante, please set up a charity fund for me, I bet i could still get laid, just so long as it would not be my own progeny of JOB's Daughters.Â
A search warrent??!?! For a noise violation?!?!? WTF EPD?!?!? And they want more public funding from us? I say fire the lot of them!Iif they got time to send dozens of officers to raid student housing for noise they can make do with half the budget they already have.
Our sad little country has turned into a police state.
Thank goodness the City is cracking down on these criminal elements!!!
Of course, they don't break into homes and businesses, or break out windows and steal the contents of your car or truck....but BOY!!! do they make noise....Oh the HUMANITY!!
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@Stooge Newton @flor3nc3 ---I have seen those co-op parties attract high schoolers. They let in the underage girls, but leave their skateboarding boyfriends out in the cold. And, they get revenge by messing with all of the cars parked around the building. The surface of the cars becomes their sidewalk, scuffing/denting/keying and setting off alarms in the 'hood.Â
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@Stooge Newton ---especially when the high schoolers show up and get the 21-year-olds busted for furnishing ALC to minors OR is it corrupting the youth of a whiner/moaner?
Especially in a police state.
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@godless anarchist ---UO had been showing that movie on campus since the early 80s. Seemed like too many poor freshman were all too ready to copycat the scene where they ripped off the super market. Lot's of guys did it at McKays Market where the Market of Choice is now. Some guys got away with it. Others got put in Handcuffs with a conviction for second degree theft. I heard a couple guys even hid in the store somewhere right before closing, got real drunk with all of the beer and roast beef of their choice...somehow made it out of there in the morning. I always wondered which of my Alumni did that.Â
I'm having a hard time believing that any U of O student, especially those who would go to the Campbell Club, would be stupid enough to put their hands on a police officer.
they been partying on campus all my life ( a long %%cking time ) and before the socialist took over no big deal, party on as long as nobody got hurt, now it's control, control, control, no wonder there's so much crime, kids can't do anything without gettin in trouble anymore. They think there going to make this a perfect little society in their eyes, ain't go in to happen!
@native ---it was pretty wild in 1969. Urban legend holds that the UO student body president (could have been the class of 1970) took LSD and did a swan dive off of the roof top of the PLC into Kincaid St. near where Taylor's is/was.
Other's stretch the legend further by saying that the guy's name was Rennie and that's why they call it Rennie's LANDING...yadda'...yadda. Lies and bad bar jokes!
@native The big crackdown started in `91. Remember when the put the West University Neighborhood Park on death row, and then executed it?
And, what Socialist?
And they were back at the party before the beer got cold..to bad that the revolving door of Lame county can't keep'em locked up.
How scary it would be with no law and order. Â Only in Eugene...
How scary it would be in a total control police state.
@Bald Odinson I will take the police.  You can have disorder AND Eugene.
way to crack down on those disorderly youngsters. How scary for a police officer to be grabbed from behind in a crowd of people SNARKÂ Of course if it was the other way around and the police started doing the same it would be called justified.
- nothing like what a protester would experience - brute force - tear gas - guns - shields - batons - fire hosesÂ
That poor police officer scared while doing his job - oh my he just may need some counseling.Â
I realize the college kids can get a little obnoxious and need to be monitored but this...seems like on a Friday night this would not be top billing for the news...or the police.
@colorowdy Snark this