Police: Kids mixed with club's drug culture

DEPUTIES STORM A DOWNTOWN NIGHT CLUB AND UNCOVER WHAT CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A DRUG HAVEN FOR TEEN...  More »

DEPUTIES STORM A DOWNTOWN NIGHT CLUB AND UNCOVER WHAT CAN BE DESCRIBED AS A DRUG HAVEN FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS. NEW TONIGHT -- WE'RE LEARNING MORE ABOUT WHAT AUTHORITIES SAY TEENS AT CLUB SEVEN BROUGHT INSIDE WITH THEM -- AND JUST HOW YOUNG SOME OF THOSE TEENS WERE. VALERIE CASTRO IS LIVE NEAR THE CLUB AT 6TH AND CENTRAL WITH THE DETAILS. VALERIE. ACCORDING TO THIS SEARCH WARRANT CLUB 7 FOUND A WAY TO CATER TO ALL AGES BY KEEPING ALCOHOL LIMITED TO ONE SECTION OF THE CLUB -- BUT IT SEEMS HARDCORE DRUGS WERE AVAILABLE TO ANYONE WHO WANTED TO GET HIGH. OFFICERS AND DEPUTIES HAD CLUB 7 SURROUNDED JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT -- LOOKING FOR DRUGS AND DEALERS. 'We found quantities of ecstasy, heroin, marijuana and i believe a small quantity of methamphetamine.' RIGHT NOW DEPUTIES SAY AT LEAST 80 ECSTASY PILLS WERE FOUND. ACCORDING TO A SEARCH WARRANT THE CLUB WAS BEING LEASED ON FRIDAY NIGHTS BY A PROMOTIONS COMPANY HOLDING 'ALL AGES RAVES,' WHICH WERE ATTENDED BY KIDS AS YOUNG AS TWELVE AND ADULTS AS OLD AS 30. 'We found children as young as 13 years old at this rave at an environment were drugs would have been easily accessible.' AUTHORITIES GOT WIND OF THE SUSPECTED DRUG CULTURE WHILE INVESTIGATING AN ECSTASY DEALER EARLIER THIS YEAR. PEOPLE WORKING NEAR THE CLUB SAY IT'S NO SURPRISE. 'You can definitely tell what's going on over there, you can hear the music, see kids in the back alley looking really trashed so it was like that every weekend.'THE SEARCH WARRANT SAYS IN MAY A 16-YEAR OLD GIRL OVERDOSED ON ECSTASY WHILE SHE WAS AT THE CLUB -- SHE TOLD INVESTIGATORS THAT BOUNCERS KNEW THE DRUGS WERE COMING THROUGH THE DOORS. CLUB OWNERS SAY THEIR BOUNCERS THOROUGHLY CHECK EVERYONE THAT COMES INTO THE CLUB -- FOR BOTH DRUGS, AND I-D. NEIGHBORS SAY THAT MAY NOT BE WORKING. 'I knew most of those girls had to have been so much younger than 18.' DEPUTIES SAY NO ARRESTS WERE MADE LAST NIGHT -- THEY ARE STILL CONTINUING WITH THE INVESTIGATION AND ARRESTS WILL LIKELY BE COMING SOON. MEANTIME, ALBUQUERQUE POLICE HAVE TAGGED THE CLUB FOR CODE VIOLATIONS -- SOMETHING THE OWNERS CONTEST. IT WILL .EW N 4.OSED UNTIL FURTLOS LUNAS MAN IS IN THE HOSPITAL TONIGHT AFTER INVESTIGATORS SAY  « Less