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twitterPolice raid ‘party house,’ arrest couple on drug charges
Neighbors complained about traffic to and from house
Mona Shield Payne/Special to the Sun
Narcotics detective Brett Wibrew carries the battering ram used Friday during a drug raid where police forced entry at a home at 1733 Red Mountain Drive in Boulder City. Methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia were seized and the residents were arrested on drug-related charges, police said.
Friday, Aug. 28, 2009 | 12:27 p.m.
Curtis Edward Shafer
Jenna Marie Shafer
Drug raid
Boulder City Police arrested a husband and wife on drug charges this morning during a raid on what they described as a “party house” in the 1700 block of Red Mountain Drive.
Curtis Shafer, 30, and Jenna Shafer, 24, were being charged with possession of methamphetamine, maintaining a house for drug use or sale and conspiracy to maintain a house for drug use or sale, all felonies, along with 34 misdemeanor counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, police said. Curtis Shafer was also charged with obstructing a police officer, a misdemeanor, police said.
They were were being held in the Clark County Detention Center on $7,000 bail apiece on the felony charges with a detainer that would send them to the Henderson Detention Center on the misdemeanor charges if they were released. Bail on the misdemeanor charges is about $24,000, Chief Thomas Finn said.
The Shafers were expected to appear in Boulder City Justice Court on Tuesday, police said.
A small amount of methamphetamine and a great deal of drug paraphernalia were confiscated, Finn said.
In addition, a Weimaraner dog was taken from the home, which Finn described as “disgusting inside,” with food-caked dishes in the kitchen, stains on the floor and feces in some places.
The raid came about a week after neighbors brought their concerns about the house to Finn during his monthly “Talk to the Chief” gathering.
The neighbors said the house draws constant traffic, including both vehicles and people coming through the desert from behind the house and jumping the fence.
“Every half-hour there is a new car,” said Mercedes Fenyves, who lives next door.
Melissa Tretton, who lives on the other side of the Shafer home, said she once had someone knock on her door asking for drugs. When her father told him he had the wrong house, the man argued with him, she said.
“When you have people knocking at your door looking for drugs, it’s ridiculous,” she said.
Fenyves said she does not allow her children to play outside because of the traffic and she has become afraid to leave her house.
She, Tretton and Marlene Twigg, who lives across the street, all have installed cameras on their homes to record the traffic to the house, hoping to be proactive.
“Our lives have been so disrupted,” Twigg said. “But unless we take the initiative to clean up our neighborhood, nothing will change.”
Police have responded to dozens and dozens of calls to the house, and narcotics detectives have been investigating activity there since March, Finn said.
The Police Department plans to take a zero-tolerance approach in the case, he said.
“I will do everything within the law to put them out of business and stop that activity,” he said. “When you have a situation where parents can’t let kids play in the yard, I will do everything I can.”
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Another METH "Mobile Home" House that will cost taxpayers 10 times what the place is worth to decontaminate and destroy the toxic trailer.
Nice tats, officer.
We need more neighbors like these people. I will turn a drug dealing bum in, in a second. I hope they go to jail and lose everything, just for being stupid. Hey drug dealers, you bums are scum.
How the heck do they manage to pay their rent/mortgage payments, keep their home while partying all the time?? I know that not one person ever manages to make money selling drugs long enough to pay real living expenses. Eventually they sink it all into the dope. How can they manage to stay in a Boulder City Neighborhood that long?
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Ed is a hard working and honarable man and doesn't deserve to be talked about this way!!!....just because his son made a few bad choices don't knock Ed.
Yes, a crime was committed and the punishment will be doled out in the justice system. Has anyone known someone with a substance abuse problem, and if it were your son or daughter would you ever stop interviening in trying to help them? At what point would you want to see your son or daughter on a street corner with a piece of cardboard asking for help? Read the article again, it was not a meth lab. It's not the parent's fault for loving their children and trying to help them. I hope it never happens to your children. Don't throw stones from glass houses.
gggrhr, very low class of you to bring up the father's name and his place of employment. I'm thankful YOU are not my neighbor, and I feel sorry for those who are, especially one guy.
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HEY STAFF: WHY DID YOU REMOVE MY POST? WHAT WAS WRONG WITH IT????????
Slander means nothing to gggrhr or the Las Vegas Sun. Why don't you get the facts straigh? BCPD was looking for a meth house/lab and actually found 2 sleeping people in their home with not enough drugs to charge them with anything but flimsy charges. Someone was looking for a big story and is acting like "a small amount of methamphetamine and a great deal of paraphernalia" is a huge drug bust, when actually it is two seriosly ill people with serious drug addictions and a family who was trying to help. The bust on the multi million dollar pot growers in Vegas is a much more serious threat to our community. Maybe the neighborhood should have banned together to help these people get on the right track in life instead of video taping them. What they did was a crime, but what the neighborhood did was shame.
"Police have responded to dozens and dozens of calls to the house"
Sigh...
Why did it have to take so long? Declare the place a public nuisance and start suing the owners!
I have been in BC for 40+ years and have known this family, grew up with the father and the apple doesnt fall to far from the tree, the drug users lived in an apartment before the parents bought them a place and they were kicked out of there also and we all are happy they dont live in this area anymore. And as for helping them MANY people have tried and willing to help with getting them help and the entire family ignores the real problem. Those neighbors have been put threw more than you know and shame is not to be put on them but the people that allow the neighborhood to have to take thhings into protecting themselves. Good job Id live in their neighborhood anytime, at least they stood up for their homes and families.
I know the neighbors in this neighborhood. They are good people, and they did try to help the Shafers! They didn't want help. Enough is enough. The Shafers can help themselves at this point if that's what they choose to do. But the neighbors should not have to put up with meth addicts jumping over their fences and people knocking on their doors looking for drugs. I have watched the neighborhood deteriorate in the last 3 years that the Shafers have lived there. The Shafers should clean up or GET OUT!
Maybe the Shaffers can help themselves when they get 5 to 10 in the slammer after they get paroled in 3 years.
Meth - it's our problem.
the best help those people got was the police.....if your kids are strug out dont give them a place to live you might as well go score some drugs for them.....the hard facts are if they dont want treatment...then they are on there own.......these two look pathetic...and sad..... if they were next door to me i'd tell them...i wont allow you guys to do this.....i live by the beach in Cali.. and this happens from time to time here and we police our own here we dont ...lets this go on....but you have to band together.....and the cops are always slow to respond...if its not a huge bust....God it must suck to be strung out on meth in 110 degree heat lol
BSFM, JUST WHAT ASSISTANCE DID YOU AND THE "MANY" RIGHTEOUS CITIZENS OF BC OFFER???
JUST CURIOUS!! WHY NOT MOVE ON AND LEAVE THE SHAFERS ALONE. THESE KIDS HURT KNOW ONE!!!
That Shafer woman is 24? Sheesh! that head has worn out 2 bodies.
How can you sit there and say its ok because YOU think they are not hurting anyone but themselves? Then let them live with you Mtell or next to you and have people knocking on your door and coming in your yard all hours of the night. And what about the three children they had taken away dont you think they are hurting,and Lord knows what those poor kids have seen. Quit feeling sorry for them sis and face the facts they need serious help not free rent to destroy everyones neighborhoods they move into.
BSFM, COULD YOU PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTION. WHAT DID YOU AND THE "MANY" DO TO HELP???
Many FRIENDS and FAMILy have offered to get them in rehabs and offered them jobs I personally have offered Your Dad money to get Curtis help since he has been on drugs for most of his teen and adult years, I also know that a certain daughter has had problems of her own. No doubt the Shafers love their son but now show that love by making him become a decent citizen and not putting other people at risk of having to deal with this problem its time to give tough love mtell!!!!
It is hard to help people that don't want help. In almost every serious meth addict case, addicts always choose the drug over their own family, even their own children. There becomes a point when family and friends "helping" (enabling) is actually hurting, and that is when "hurting" addicts actually may be the only thing that helps (and usually it takes even more than that). Meth addicts cannot be trusted once addicted, and hard to trust for the rest of their lives. If you give them money, they will use it on drugs. Addicts lie, lie, lie. Even if allowed to "detox", chances are good they will resume drug use if they return to their city, with the same deadbeat friends and acquaintances. Good luck.
for starters,dont bail them out. if they ever are going to straighten themselves out, tough love is the answer. rejco100 may not be happy about any 12 step program.
I think I may have caught a disease just looking at the picture of that disease filled woman......wow.......feel like I have to bleach my eyes now just to be safe......how do you let yourself turn into trash like that?
BSFM,I AM A MALE AND "HE" IS NOT MY DAD.
MY MISTAKE, YOU MUST BE A CHAMPION TO THE SHAFER'S FAMILY.
Interesting that the parents were over at the house today cleaning out the carport...
You want your neighborhood cleaned up, but you don't actually want them to physically clean? If you are serious about wanting to help your neighbors and clean up, then pitch in and help instead of hiding in your house spying on them!
chc2: Not spying and not my neighbors. A simple observation. You go on over and help clean up the fecal matter and meth lab trash.
"If you dont have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all!" Three cheers to Layken and mtell!
You neighbors of this family did NOTHING to help them, in fact, you did just the opposite. How dare you say otherwise. You invaded there privacy, instigated confrontation and harassed them many times. You are spinning a very one-sided and misleading web of lies.
"Before you point your finger, make sure your hands are clean" BM
"These kids hurt no one."
If they're selling methamphetamine in Boulder City I'd venture to say they are hurting a lot of people. They are hurting the people they sell to, they are hurting their clients' loved ones, and they are hurting whatever victims of theft, robbery, etc. that these lowlifes steal from to get their drug $. Dealing drugs is not a victimless crime.
Did it say they were selling? Were any of the charges mentioned about selling? NO. Get the facts straight once and for all. The neighbors complained, the police went in thinking it was a drug house and found NO PARTY going on. Only a very messy house and 2 sleeping people and a sleeping dog. They found no evidence of a meth lab nor did they find evidence of selling drugs. They did not even find enough drugs in the house to charge them with intent to sell. This whole thing has turned into a circus with out facts. The dozens of calls were more about harrassment from the neighbors, than anything else. You need to stop spying on what is going on, get a life and quit bad mouthing people. It sounds like a small town rumor mill gotten out of hand. I can see it, people spying out the window or with their fancy cameras and formulating what they beleive to be true in their head and spreading it around without checking the facts. Nobody has the facts straight including the author of the article.
It is no secret that there was a drug problem. I too live in this neighborhood and have never had any problems with any of the Shafers. Curtis is an addict but has never been anything but nice to me. He has an addiction and addictions, especially meth, are a very challenging addiction to get over. He loves his children, it is obvious when he is with them, but the drugs took over. It is easy to say that he should have quit and should have gotten help but until you are in a situation, you will not and can not understand. Ed is a very nice man and really takes care of his home and truly loves his family. All ANY parent can do is try their best to instill values in their children. ANY child, no matter how well you raise them, can choose the wrong path in life. But seriously people, your children are still your children and any good parent knows that the love for your child, no matter what mistakes they make, is the closest to unconditional love that exists. Curtis's family did everything that they did because they loved him and his children. How can anyone say that that is wrong? And honestly, the "party house" that needs to be dealt with in this neighborhood is on the corner of the street over. If anyone has been here for any amount of time, there is no question as to which house this is. There is more traffic in and out of this home then I had ever seen at Curtis's house. I have also seen the vehicles that leave this home almost run over the kids playing basketball or riding their bikes because they drive so fast and carelessly. How this house has been overlooked for so many years is beyond me. The police have been there more than I count on my hands and feet and it still remains the same... The drugs in the schools here are ridiculous! If you have a child in the Highschool, test them, you would be really surprised. If they drug tested the sports teams at BCHS, we would have none! Drugs are everyone's problem, whether you want to remove the rose colored glasses or not. In the end everyone is entitled to their own opinions and everyone makes mistakes. No one is perfect!
Neighborhood Update: Fecal matter now identified as dog food, woof woof! OOPS! Guess alot of info is wrong... stay tuned!
First of all, vegasvampire, get the name right,it is "SHAFER" with 1 F not 2. The Shafers are a very loving family. I know this because they are MY family. If you don't know them, then you need to keep your mouth SHUT. My Uncle and Aunt love thier children and grandchildren more than anything.
Haven't we ALL done something we shouldn't have? Nobody out there is perfect. Some of us it just takes a little longer to get back to the right path. Rocco, you said these two look pathetic and sad? How do you look when you get woke up by someone kicking in your door? Probably the same way. really????, I couldn't have said it better. My Uncle and Aunt ARE great people and raised thier children in a VERY LOVING home with VERY GOOD values. Sometimes the wrong path is taken.
"BSMF" you are really something. You say you know the Shafer family, then you should know that they are good people and love thier kids. You probably wouldn't have the courage to say all the stuff you are saying if you weren't hiding on the other side of the web. That's what really makes me laugh at people that speak badly about others on the internet. You can talk the talk behind the scene but when it comes down to it you don't have the guts to say it without hiding behind a keyboard. All of you negative people need to LEAVE THE SHAFERS ALONE!!!
K.Shafer
Update: Things don't look too good for "the instigators", be on lookout for people with egg on their face!
Hey, all of you neighborly BC folk. You really think up a lot of good things to do to your neighbors as you gather around your central pole. I bet you just forgot after Sunday what Jesus was saying. It is a wonder you didn't go in with a bulldozer, torches high and your guns a blazin'. I know these people, this man and woman who have been married for 36 years and try to help their family the best they can. He would give you the shirt off his back, crawl under your car , fix it and give you money for gas, while his wife cooked you a meal and fed you. All they want is what's right. Is what you're doing right?Think about it long and hard. You are just helping make things worse!
Copy and paste this...interesting website. Click on the faces.
http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/DrugIssue...
Wow! This is some thread. Obviously Curtis and Jenna are addicts! Thank god their 3 daughters weren't there! They have been with their grandmother (Jenna's mom). I don't know what the answer is. These addicts have tried to go clean up and obviously it is bigger than them. What is the right thing to do? What is it going to take for them to conquer this addiction? Death, overdose? It is aggravating as hell to have this in your neighborhood. In my opinion, I think if they can't clean up their act on their own then they need to be put in a place to make them clean up. Prison...I mean what is the alternative that hasn't been tried? Curtis? What about your kids? Look at the mug shots..you both look like meth heads. One step up from death is what you look like.
There are so many drugs in Boulder City, it is pathetic. I have never known a city so infested with addicts, sellers and dealers. Sellers that work for the government. Dealers from Vegas who are said to be untouchable because of ties with law enforcement officials. This problem is much deeper than Curtis and Jenna. If they keep up with what they are doing, chances are they will be dead in a year. There are bigger fish to fry out there BCPD.
Ok here it goes again with all the trash talk. Obviously people can't keep their mouths shut, or their fingers off the keyboards. It is also aggrivating as hell to have stangers talk trash about your family. Yes that's right Curtis and Jenna are MY family and I think I speak for everyone in the family when I say, "EVERYONE NEEDS TO JUST KEEP THEIR DAMN MOUTHS SHUT, AND BUT YOUR NOSES OUT OF IT!" Everyone of you trash talkers act like you have never done anything wrong. You think you are perfect? Well what do you think you are doing by posting all of these comments, it is wrong.
Peaceandlove, nobody asked for your opinion. Asking what's it going to take to clean up, like Curtis and Jenna have to answer to you. Got news for you, they don't. All of you need to stop putting your two cents in, because it is none of your business. They don't need all of this negative crap from you people. They need support. To know that if they fall that there will be someone to help them back up and take that next step. Lord have mercy on anybody in any of your families that need support to over come something. You all would just kick them to the curb and tell them to sink or swim. But I guess that's the difference with our family, we love each other NO MATTER WHAT. So, to all of you PEOPLE, you know who you are, KEEP YOUR MOUTHS SHUT AND YOUR COMMENTS TO YOURSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!