Cops 'Crash' Party with Pot, Booze, 5 Teens

After someone tipped off New Canaan police that a party was taking place last Saturday on Field Crest Road with under-age drinking, cops showed up at the door and five teenagers were charged.

New Canaan police gave this account (an accusation not proven in court) of the incident:

At about 11:43 p.m., police received their own "invitation" to the party with alcohol and teenagersf on Field Crest Road.

Officers showed up at the house and spoke at the door with Charles Anderson Jr., 18, who was soon charged with permitting people under the age of 21 to possess alcohol.

Police then entered the house to make sure no one inside was in any danger. No one was, but police found four 18-year-olds and a 19-year-old, all New Canaan residents, along with 20 cans of beer and a relatively small amount of marijuana.

Also in the house was paraphernalia connected with smoking marijuana: rolling papers, a glass bong, a glass pipe and a grinder for marijuana.

Since the evidence of a public danger here is pretty thin, New Canaan Patch is not publishing the names of the teenagers charged, except for Anderson, who hosted the party.

All five teenagers might have been charged with marijuana possession if three of them hadn't admitted to being the only ones who had the pot. Those three were each charged with possession of less than half an ounce of marijuana. Two of those teenagers said they had the paraphernalia, so those two were charged with possessing it.

One 19-year-old was charged with possession of alcohol by a person under 21 years old.

Anderson, charged only with permitting use of alcohol by minors, was issued a misdemeanor summons directing him to appear March 6 in state Superior Court in Norwalk. Infraction tickets were issued to the others.