Some members of Phi Kappa Tau and Sigma Alpha Epsilon at Miami (OH) may be in trouble. There are allegations about shooting fireworks and having fireworks in the houses, plus allegedly a “significant” amount of marijuana.
Maybe this is a teachable moment (I said maybe). 1) Shooting fireworks house-to-house doesn't, on the face of it, sound like a good idea. A real fire risk, and not exactly something easy to conceal. 2) Refusing to cooperate with police can very well encourage the cops to get search warrants. That's certainly within the GLOs' rights; however, the police are unlikely to cut anybody much slack -- or any at all -- once they've had to get those warrants -- correct?
See
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/...followi/nRF79/
Excerpts from ^^:
“Around 5:30 a.m. Sunday morning, Oxford police responded to a fire alarm which had gone off at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, located at 310 N. Tallawanda Road, next door to Phi Kappa Tau.
“Officers arrived and saw a person shooting fireworks out of the third floor at Phi Tau,” Sgt. Jon Varley said.
The two fraternities allegedly had been shooting fireworks at each other . . .
In addition to finding fireworks, both exploded and unexploded, inside the houses, Oxford authorities allegedly found what Varley described as “a pretty significant amount of marijuana” and paraphernalia. Police were doing an inventory of the confiscated items on Monday.
. . . Varley said authorities might not have learned about the marijuana had it not been for a lack of cooperation from members of the two fraternities.
“All we wanted were the fireworks and the people who were shooting the fireworks … Because neither house cooperated, police obtained two search warrants, one for each house. The fire department also was on the scene.” . . .
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