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When an area resident complained about suspicious behavior in the area of Althea Lane and Hanson Road just past midnight on Saturday, police said they found a teenage drinking party had just taken place in a nearby home. A 19-year-old resident of the home on Althea Lane was charged with providing alcohol to minors, and police called the parents of two teenagers found in the house, although all the other attendees at the party appeared to have left before police arrived at about 12:40 a.m., police said. Darien police gave this account (including accusations not proven in court):

At about 12:40 a.m., a neighborhood resident told police that males were talking in the area and two suspicious males with flashlights were running from a house on Althea Lane where a burglary had taken place in the past. The resident told police that the two got in a car and left. Police came and walked up to the house, seeing Natural Light beer cans on the lawn.

An under-age party with alcohol on Swifts Lane broke up with the arrival of Darien police at about 11:49 p.m. on Friday, May 20, police said, adding that the host was arrested, and his parents, the homeowners, were away. Darien police described the incident and arrest with this account (including accusations not proven in court):

Police received notification through the online tipline that a party with teenagrs and alcohol was suspected of taking place. A police officer went to the scene. The police report mentions only one other officer at the scene during what was a busy weekend for police in town. As an officer approached the house, he saw a teenage male in front, standing with a case of beer at his feet.

Amid reports of misbehavior by New Canaan teenagers at the Darien/New Canaan high school lacrosse game held May 1 in Darien, were accounts of two drunk teens. Police have now provided more information on the incident involving the female. At about 2 p.m., police working on a traffic and security detail at the high school campus were dispatched to the female bathroom at the new concession stand at the school. There, an 18-year-old New Canaan resident was in one of the bathroom stalls and being helped by a couple of other individuals. The teenager appeared to be severely intoxicated, had vomited and seemed to be passed out.

Two intoxicated teenagers were removed from the Darien High School campus on Saturday by police, and New Canaan High School’s principal indicated there was more misbehavior going on among spectators of the boys lacrosse game between the two schools. The principal William Egan, on Monday addressed an email to students at that school and copied the wider NCHS community, saying he was “disappointed with the behavior of a few our students at the Darien/NC lacrosse game.”

“Consuming or possessing alcohol, threatening or harassing others, acting disrespectfully, and/or any behaviors that would not be tolerated in school will not be permitted at these contests,” Egan said in his email. “If it is witnessed, students will be removed from the game and may face significant disciplinary action in school, up to and including suspension. Also, it is important to note that it is illegal for anyone, regardless of age, to possess alcohol on school grounds at any time.”

Egan said those who attend games have the right to do so “without hearing profanity and seeing students make negative choices.”

Darien police were called to the campus at about 3:30 p.m. on a report of a New Canaan teenager passed out in the woods near the baseball field. That was at about the time that Darien and New Canaan boys lacrosse teams were playing (or had just concluded their game).

Darien police are looking into setting up an alternative to filing charges against teens caught drinking — an educational program. Police Chief Duane Lovello briefly discussed the possibility of an alternative program at the last Police Commission meeting. “We are seeing an uptick in two areas — the under-age drinking parties and dealing with the emotionally disturbed,” Lovello told the commission. “We are in discussion about alternative ways of dealing with youth that we encounter in an under-age drinking setting. I think there are new programs other departments and other states are doing, diversionary-type programs that don’t involve the judicial system directly, so we’re exploring what other options are available to us.” Lovello said he had already discussed the matter with Richard Colangelo Jr., the state’s attorney for the Stamford-Norwalk Judicial District.

Darien police, receiving a tip Saturday night through the department’s new online tip service that teenagers were drinking at a party on Brookside Road, found the party, the teenagers and the alcohol. The tip came in at 9:44 p.m. When police showed up at the residence of the address they were given, they saw a female standing in front of the garage, which is detached from the house. The homeowner met them at the door and told them his son had some friends over in a room connected to the detached garage. When police entered the room, they found 17 teenagers, along with a table with a lot of red plastic cups on it set up for beer pong and four 30-packs of beer on the floor. None of the teens would say who brought the alcohol.

After Darien police found more than 15 teenagers, aged 16 to 18 years old, at a party Friday on Palmer Lane with lots of alcohol consumption, the parents of the teenage host were each charged with failure to halt illegal possession of alcohol by a minor, police said. The parents were each issued misdemeanor summonses to appear in state Superior Court in Stamford on March 7. The teenagers were each charged with possession of alcohol by a minor, an infraction that carries a $136 fine. And all of their parents were informed, a Police Department policy. The incident is still under investigation and further charges may be filed.

A report of a young female sleeping on a front lawn of a house on Hecker Avenue brought police, who then learned that the 19-year-old had walked away from a party with underage drinking on Harbor Road. Darien police gave this account (containing accusations not proven in court):

When police responded to the report, which came in early on Thursday morning, they came upon the young woman on the shoulder of the eastbound travel side of the road, curled up and asleep. She was intoxicated, with a strong odor of alcohol on her, and also so incoherent that police couldn’t understand what she was saying. Post 53-Darien EMS was called to the scene, and ambulance personnel were able to identify the woman as a Darien resident. She remained very confused and incoherent, but was finally able to explain that she had been at a house party earlier in the evening.

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A 911 call in which the caller hung up without saying anything led to police visiting a Crimmins Road home at 11:30 p.m. Sunday, where they found a teenage drinking party breaking up. No arrests were made, but parents were notified. Police gave this account of the incident:

When police arrived, they found teenagers running down the street, across the street and into a neighbor’s yard. The 16-year-old girl who answered the door at the home where the party had taken place said she didn’t serve alcohol to anyone, but some teenagers came to the house without permission, and they were allowed inside. She said she had just kicked them out because they showed up uninvited.