State police prevent high school keg party

COEUR d'ALENE - Coordination among law enforcement agencies helped Idaho State Police prevent a "senior kegger" party in the Coeur d'Alene National Forest this week.

Coeur d'Alene School District school resource officers learned of plans for a large party with 300 students, and reported the information to state police earlier this week.

The anticipated location of the party was discovered near the intersection of Forest Service Road 413 and Murray Draw Road, a remote area in eastern Kootenai County, northwest of the Bumblebee Campground area, state police reported.

After a party organizer arrived with two kegs of beer, and prior to other students arriving, contact was made with the person who had prepared the party location. Police seized the two kegs of beer, charging the individual with minor in possession of alcohol.

The adult who provided the alcohol will be charged with providing alcohol to a minor, state police reported.

Idaho State Police officers were helped by the Coeur d'Alene Police Department, U.S. Forest Service law enforcement and the Shoshone County Sheriff's Office. The incident remains under investigation.