Party Town USA

Man these kids are partying it up around here lately:

For the second day in a row and the third time in a week and a half, local police dealt with a dangerous drinking incident involving underage people.

Fargo Police Sgt. Kevin Volrath released a statement to media saying that officers were called just before 5:30 a.m. Saturday to 137 Prairiewood Drive to help an ambulance crew with an unresponsive female.

When police arrived, they found Jenna xxxxxxxx*, 19, unconscious. xxxxxxxx shares the apartment with Jared Miller, 19, and Tyler Finck, 18, both of whom also were there.

xxxxxxxxxx came to just before paramedics took her out, Volrath said. Officers determined that the trio was drinking vodka and the woman passed out.

xxxxxxxx was taken to Innovis Hospital, Volrath said. She was not listed as a patient either there or at MeritCare Hospital on Saturday afternoon.

All three residents of the apartment were cited for minor in possession, minor consuming and minor under the influence, Volrath said.

Neither xxxxxxxx nor her roommates have a listed telephone number. An attempt to reach her by e-mail was unsuccessful.

The incident happened about 24 hours after a 19-year-old Concordia College student, Jesse Ringdahl, was taken to Innovis Hospital after a passerby found him semiconscious in the front yard of a home at 919 5th St. S. in Moorhead. He was released from the hospital later that same day.

Moorhead police said Ringdahl had been drinking from a vodka bong, a container that funnels a large amount of alcohol directly into the drinker’s mouth.

On Tuesday, police pulled the body of Minnesota State University Moorhead sophomore Patrick Kycia, 19, from the Red River.

Initial autopsy reports said Kycia drowned.

Police believe he drank heavily the night of Sept. 22 at the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity in Moorhead.

Kycia left the party at 611 10th St. S. sometime after midnight, heading for his home several blocks away, but disappeared.

The day after Kycia’s body was found, a former fraternity member, Alex Daniel Olson, was arrested in connection with the discovery of 152 grams of hallucinogenic mushrooms in the Phi Sigma Kappa house. The drugs were found in a search of the house connected with Kycia’s death.

That case remains under investigation.

Fargo Police Sgt. Shannon Ruziska said while it’s unusual to have three such similar, high-profile cases in such a short time, it’s difficult to say whether that means anything.

“Throughout the years that I’ve been here, if we had any individual who (drank) so much they’ve been hospitalized, and they’re a minor, it’s been picked up by the media pretty well. It’s an unusual spike in the amount we have. I wouldn’t be able to say if it indicates anything yet.”