From mw-raves@csd.uwm.edu Fri Dec 30 14:55:37 1994 Received: from alpha1.csd.uwm.edu by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id OAA00698; Fri, 30 Dec 1994 14:55:36 -0800 Received: from (listserv@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (8.6.9/8.6.8) with SMTP id UAA20177; Thu, 29 Dec 1994 20:30:47 -0600 Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 20:30:47 -0600 Message-Id: <199412300230.CAA28876@mixcom.mixcom.com> Errors-To: aragorn@csd.uwm.edu Reply-To: Craig.Stodolenak@mixcom.com Originator: mw-raves@csd.uwm.edu Sender: mw-raves@csd.uwm.edu Precedence: bulk From: "Craig L. Stodolenak" To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Milwaukee Journal article X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Status: OR [sorry so late with this; just getting caught up with things - Craig] 1 ADULT, 12 MINORS ARRESTED AT RAVE PARTY by Bob Helbig of the Journal Staff [Milwaukee Journal, 12/23/94, pg. B3] Police broke up an illegal rave party an an abandoned South Side warehouse early Friday, arresting the adult organizer and 12 minors for violating city curfew laws. About 100 people -- most of them teenagers -- paid $7 each to attend the party, which featured a disc jockey but no drugs or alcohol, police Lt. Laura Schwefel said. A neighbor alerted the District 2 police station that carloads of teenagers were ariving at the abandoned building in the 2600 block of S. Greely St. Shortly after 1 a.m., several officers entered the building, causing many of the attendees to flee. "These were not local people," Schwefel said. Of the 12 minors between the ages of 14 and 16 who were taken into custody, only two were from Milwaukee. Others hailed from Pewaukee, Waukesha, Burlington, Elm Grove, Oak Creek, Neenah, Greendale and Delavan. All were released to relatives. Officers arrested a West Allis man, 18, who they say organized the event. He will face municipal citations for 12 counts of contributing to the delinquency of minors. Teens told police they heard about the event from fliers that were circulated in the metro Milwaukee area. Authorities are extremely concerned that such out-of-control gatherings would be deadly in the event of a fire. Lack of fire extinguishers and emergency exit lighting, plus locked doors, have all the makings of a disaster. The parties have been common in Milwaukee. Last month, police raided a rave party at a vacant warehous on the North Side. It was attended by some 170 revelers, who each paid $5 for admission. Police arrested the four men who organized that event. Eleven juveniles -- from Appleton, Kenosha, Racine and several North Shore suburbs -- were cited for curfew violations. On Halloween night in 1992, police broke up a huge rave party, arresting more than 950 people and issuing each partygoer a $325 citation. Later, however, those citations were dropped. The four organizers of the clandestine party were each fined $3,000 for permitting alcohol consumption in a public place without a license.