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Nine partiers were arrested after Eugene police responded to a large and unruly party near University of Oregon campus on Saturday afternoon, March 14.
The party, on 14th Avenue between Patterson Street and Hilyard Street, gained police attention around 1:30 p.m. A crowd of 1,000 to 1,500 college-age revelers began to fill open areas and roadways, according to a press release from Eugene Police Department.
Nearby residents reported people urinating in public and getting into arguments with residents. Police said intoxicated people were walking into traffic, with some trying to open doors of passing cars. One man who fell and hit his head received medical help.
Eugene police’s Mobile Response Team, crisis negotiation team, drone team and additional officers responded joining Eugene and University of Oregon patrol officers already on scene.
Three people were arrested after the crisis negotiation team began to instruct the party to get out of the road shortly after 5 p.m. During the arrest, the Eugene Police press release said, one man resisted and “sustained” a cut to his head. Eugene Springfield Fire evaluated the cut before he was sent to jail.
Charges on those arrests included criminal trespass, disorderly conduct, interfering with police, possession of an open container of alcohol, resisting arrest and providing false information to the police.
In the press release, police said crowd resistance to the order to move out of the road was minimal, and officers “did not use any force requiring documentation.”
Officers began to look at multiple parties taking place in the area, and the mobile response team focused on a house party in the 600 block of East 14th Avenue that “appeared to be the greatest source of activity.” Six people at that house were arrested for prohibited noise, and cited for an unruly gathering.
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