Dorm keg party lands students in trouble (w/police report)

By: ALEX BUSKO

Posted: 7/3/08

Nine University students were arrested Saturday night on a spectrum of alcohol-related charges.

University Police responded to a complaint from East Campus Village and found the students in the lobby of building 1512 trying to haul two kegs, a game table and several backpacks of beer and liquor into the elevators at 10:50 p.m.

Katherine Zornig, Timothy Yeomans, Lauren Scharfenberg, Pablo Arcieri-Vazquez, Lucas Martinez, Amanda Stevenson, Miguel Rivera and Stephanie Fernandez were charged with underage possession of alcohol.

Jeffrey Teves, who is over the age of 21, stated that all of the alcohol in the area and all items not claimed by any of the other individuals on scene belonged to him and further stated he needed to get his deposit back on the two kegs that he had purchased for Fernandez's (his girlfriend) birthday party," the arrest report said. Teves was charged with eight counts of furnishing alcohol to minors.

Fernandez was charged with representing fraudulent identification "for displaying her sister's Georgia driver's license ... and represented it as her own," wrote Officer Clark Sparrow.

Rivera was then charged with obstruction for making "derogatory comments concerning the officers on scene" and saying "he was an Armed Forces recruit that would soon be killing people in the desert for [his] country and should not be subject to such treatment."

Additionally, Georgia's junior point guard Billy Humphrey was booted from the men's basketball team by head coach Dennis Felton on Friday after he was arrested in Gwinnett County and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.

Humphrey's second violation of the alcohol policy means he "will be suspended from UGA per minimum sanctions," according to a document from the University's Office of Judicial Programs. This means he will be suspended for the year.

Also, charges were dropped against University employee Brett Rudolph, who was charged with felony theft by conversion after being stopped by police for driving under the influence of alcohol in a University van in February.

Rudolph plead no content to reckless driving and defective equipment for driving with flat tires.