Underage drinking case ends because of lack of cooperation

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A Granville police investigation into an underaged drinking incident on North Maple Street was suspended following a “lack of cooperating victims and no new information developed.”

In an incident report finalized on Aug. 7, police said they were contacted on July 26 at 8:18 p.m. by a 38-year-old Quaker Street mother who said she had video evidence on the social media app “SnapChat” of multiple underage children, one being her daughter, consuming Twisted Tea, an alcoholic beverage.

The woman told the responding officer, Sgt. Josh Whitney, that she would send Whitney the video footage and gave him the North Maple Street residence where she believed the children were located.

Police contacted a 32-year-old North Maple Street woman and four girls, a 14-year-old DeKalb Road girl, a 15-year-old County Route 24 girl, a 15-year-old North Maple Street girl and a 19-year-old Quaker Street woman in the front yard of the 32-year-old woman’s residence.

All the juveniles and the 19-year-old woman were administered an alcohol test and gave positive readings. The DeKalb Road and County Route 24 girls were taken back to the police station to await pickup by their parents while the North Maple Street girl stayed with her mother.

Police described the DeKalb Road girl as “out of control” prior to leaving the scene.

“She was vulgar and hitting, kicking in the back of the patrol car,” Whitney wrote. “During transport, I had to stop the patrol unit to verify that she was not hurting herself or (the County Route 24 girl) as she was acting out of control,” Whitney wrote.

“This officer had to stop the unit and physically restrain her from continuing to punch and kick in the back of the car. Finally, she calmed enough and we were able to proceed to the station without further incident.”

Police contacted the 45-year-old mother of the DeKalb Road girl and the 35-year-old Winstead, Connecticut mother of the County Route 24 girl to retrieve their daughters.

Later that night, the 38-year-old Quaker Street mother contacted police again with more details to the situation, claiming she overheard her daughter, the 19-year-old Quaker Street woman, say that “she wasn’t going to get arrested for this” and that a 21-year-old East Main Street man could have provided the alcohol for the minors.

On July 29, Whitney wrote in the report he had contacted a North Granville woman who scheduled a time for her and her daughter, unknown age, to speak about the incident.

The North Granville mother and daughter provided police with video evidence of the three minors consuming alcohol. Whitney noted that all the subjects involved were not cooperative during the initial call of how they were supplied the alcohol.

After being tipped that a 29-year-old North Maple Street man could have supplied the children with the alcohol, police contacted the man on Aug. 6, who signed a Miranda waiver, and said he knew nothing about where the alcohol came from and that he never supplied anyone underaged with alcohol. The man declined to give a signed statement.

“No leads or cooperating subjects willing to give a statement regarding the incident,” Whitney wrote on Aug. 7. “Case suspended due to a lack of cooperating victims and no new information has been developed.”