The Ellettsville Police Department has explained how it responded to a sudden influx of people at one of the town’s parks over the weekend.
In a social media post Tuesday, the department said it began receiving calls on Saturday of a large number of cars and pedestrians gathering at Marci Jane Lewis Park.
Cars were reportedly parked in the streets blocking traffic and in grassy areas. The pedestrian traffic included open air consumption of alcoholic beverages and suspected use of marijuana.
When officers arrived, they found the gathering quickly growing and exceeding the space in the park area. There were also vehicles racing and “doing donuts” on public roadways.
The department said the town of Ellettsville had not issued any permits for the event. With the assistance of Indiana State Police and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department, the “unlicensed gathering” was dispersed.
The department cited illegal speed contests, criminal trespass, open alcoholic beverages and use of illegal narcotics as the primary state laws being violated at the event.
Ellettsville PD confirmed to WFIU/WTIU that no arrests were made and that no one was cited for the offenses, and that crowd dispersed peacefully.
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