PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Port St. Lucie mother\u2019s Halloween night ended in handcuffs after officers say they found ‘crowds’ of teens drinking at her home.<\/p>\n
A Halloween night party ended in handcuffs after officers say minors were caught drinking outside a home where adults were gathered inside.<\/p>\n
On Halloween night, officers with the Port St. Lucie Police Department say they responded to the 11000 block of SW Fieldstone Way after receiving complaints of a large party with crowds of minors.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival, the Department of Children and Family Services (DCF) was also investigating the homeowner, 41-year-old Audrey Mahaney, who is allegedly known to allow house parties where teens consume alcohol.<\/p>\n
See also: Police identify victims after deadly mini bike crash in Riviera Beach<\/a><\/p>\n Before DCF arrived, large crowds of teens were reportedly seen going in and out of the home and gathering on the lawn where bottles of alcohol were scattered.<\/p>\n Police say they made contact with Mahaney, who was also having an adult gathering inside the home, but allowed her minor children to have their own guests.<\/p>\n Investigators say that there was a lack of supervision, which led to the teens consuming alcohol.<\/p>\n Probable cause was established to book Mahaney for a count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, per police.<\/p>\n Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. Sign up for our newsletter<\/a> to get the day’s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> for the biggest stories and can’t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Port St. Lucie mother\u2019s Halloween night ended in handcuffs after officers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[22060,22061,503,1958,8930,171,173,172,22058,22059],"class_list":{"0":"post-30612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-audrey-mahaney","9":"tag-child-supervision","10":"tag-halloween","11":"tag-house-party","12":"tag-police-investigation","13":"tag-port-st-lucie","14":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","15":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","16":"tag-teen-drinking","17":"tag-underage-alcohol"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}