Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

Police raid ‘party house,’ arrest couple on drug charges

Neighbors complained about traffic to and from house

Raid

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.

Boulder City raid

Neighbors stand by as Boulder City Police officers and narcotics detectives gather Friday outside the property at 1733 Red Mountain Drive following a drug raid.  Methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia were seized and the residents were arrested on drug-related charges, authorities said.  Launch slideshow »
Curtis Edward Shafer

Curtis Edward Shafer

Jenna Marie 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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