65 minors busted for underage drinking Sunday at the Villas

Sixty-five minors were cited for underage drinking early Sunday morning at the Varsity Villas Apartments complex after a caller's complaint that the minors were throwing beer bottles at passers-by.\nWhen officers from the Indiana State Excise Police arrived at 464 Varsity Lane, they found between 12 and 15 minors outside the house holding beer bottles and plastic blue cups, according to an Indiana State Excise Police news release.\nIn addition to the 65 citations, one minor was also charged with false informing.\nBoth of the apartment's residents who were at the party were underage but not cited because they had not been consuming alcohol, said Officer Travis Thickstun of the State Excise Police, who was one of the officers on the scene.\nBut the investigation into the apartment's residents was still not complete, Thickstun said, and the two residents could potentially still face charges.\nThe police did not know who had thrown bottles from the apartment's balcony, but Thickstun said he did not think anybody was injured.\n"This was not the first party I have gone to where I have cited 65 people," Thickstun said, adding he has gone to several parties where more than 100 people have been cited for underage alcohol consumption.\nThe Indiana State Excise Police is the law-enforcement division of Indiana's Alcohol and Tobacco Commission. The agency works to reduce the access and availability of alcohol and tobacco to minors, according to its Web site. \nThe bust was in conjunction with the IU Police Department and the Bloomington Police Department.\nAll 65 cited are scheduled to appear in February before the Monroe Circuit Court, according to the news release.