AGENTS BREAK UP KEG PARTY IN RADFORD

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 6, 1992                   TAG: 9202060207
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: By KATHY LOAN
DATELINE: RADFORD                                LENGTH: Medium
AGENTS BREAK UP KEG PARTY IN RADFORD
Six people were charged with alcohol-related violations after city police and state Alcohol Beverage Control agents investigated a keg party last weekend on Lawrence Street.
The charges were placed after an undercover officer went to a party where police suspected keg beer was available and admission was being charged.
The officer was served, left the party and returned with a search warrant, police said.
Ten charges had been filed by Tuesday, Radford police Maj. Jonny Butler said. Police confiscated an undisclosed amount of drugs - primarily marijuana - and drug paraphernalia, Butler said.
Russell Sexton Chadwick, 20, and Robert K. North, 19, of the 1200 block of Lawrence Street were charged with aiding and abetting the unlawful sale of alcohol.
The two also were charged with violating the city's noise ordinance. Butler said a television could be heard at the property line.
The names of others charged were not available Wednesday, but Butler said two people were charged with drinking in public and there were four other charges of alcohol-related violations filed against party-goers, including under-age possession of alcohol and false identification.
Butler said each of the 300 people at the party could have been charged with frequenting an unlicensed establishment.
"Just going to those parties is a crime," he said.
Most of the people at the party were college students, but it appeared Chadwick and North were not students, Butler said.
Butler said 12 other alcohol-related arrests were made in Radford Saturday night by city police and ABC agents. Those charges ranged from under-age possession of alcohol to urinating in public.
For the past three or four years, Butler said, the city has periodically assigned two or three teams of officers to go to parties to see if they can get in.
There were other parties Saturday, but it's difficult to investigate more than one a night, he said.
"There is some serious money changing hands on the illegal sale of alcoholic beverages," Butler said.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB