IUPD raids SAE party; president arrested

IUPD officers responded to a call reporting a party with a keg at Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity early Sunday morning. Officers arrested five students at the party, including the SAE chapter president. They also confiscated a keg, as well as several bottles of alcohol and cases of beer.\nOfficer Joe Amandola was the first officer to arrive at the scene, and attempted to find the president of the house upon arrival. Amandola was assisted by officers Brian Oliger and Steven Schnell.\n"The uniqueness of the situation was that our officers were trying to contact house officers," IUPD Lt. Jerry Minger said.\nAccording to Minger, while searching for a chapter officer of SAE, one of the IUPD officers observed several trash bags of iced-down beer in the kitchen. Officers also noticed several people dumping their cups in attempts to rid themselves of any evidence.\nUpon spotting the beer, the IUPD officers contacted dean's officials.\nDean of Students Jim Gibson and the officers were walked through the house by chapter President junior Robert Guiser. Gibson ordered Guiser to open up the kitchen, but Guiser stated that he did not have a key for the kitchen.\nAfter a key was not produced, a call was made to the house manager. \n"The house manager said that they all have keys," Minger said.\nMembers of SAE still could not produce a key. At that point, fire department officials were contacted, and they opened the kitchen door. \nUpon entering the kitchen, officers and dean's officials found a trove of alcoholic beverages. The items found included one keg, two unopened 1.75 liter bottles of rum, one three-quarters full 1.75 bottle of rum, 15 empty 1.75 bottles of rum, 57 empty thirty-can cases of beer, and 20 unopened thirty-can cases of beer.\nGuiser was arrested under charges of furnishing alcohol to minors.\nIn addition, four others were arrested on various charges.\nGuiser has not heard anything about disciplinary action that could be pending against SAE on the university or national level.\n"The members of the chapter and I are working along with the university to come up with a positive solution to this matter," Guiser said. \nSenior Colin Godecke, InterFraternity Counsel president said IFC is working to help resolve the matter. \n"We are going to urge them to cooperate with any sort of investigation that is taking place, whether it is with their nationals or the University," he said.