Not much before midnight on Saturday night (Sept. 25) Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to 8 Selden Court in Palm Coast, where an anonymous caller had reported to police that numerous underage people were there drinking and doing drugs, walking through the street and cutting into neighbors’ yards.
The place looked like a party when deputies arrived, with vehicles lining the street and juveniles walking in and ou of the house. As soon as the questioning started deputies reported smelling alcohol on the juveniles’ breath. Some 33 people were counted at the house by the time the questioning was done, and the owner, 50–year-old Christan L. Myers, was under arrest on a county of holding an open-house party with alcohol and a count of causing the delinquency of a minor.
Myers, who spoke with a deputy with a beer in hand, told a deputy she was not aware that the juveniles in the house were drinking, that she alone was drinking, and that it was a small gathering for friends of her daughter’s.
Deputies cleared the house and heard admissions from 14 juveniles that they’d been drinking, according to the sheriff’s report. “While gathering the juveniles in order to contact their parents,” the report states, “deputies entered the residence to make sure everyone came outside. Inside was a strong odor of burnt marijuana. In plain view, on the living room couch, kitchen counter, a child’s bedroom, and the back patio there was marijuana residue. There were medical marijuana containers, grinders, and marijuana paraphernalia scattered in the se areas as well. Throughout the home there were several bottle caps from Mike’s Hard lemonade and Corona,” the beer. The same bottle caps were strewn around the vehicles.
In the easement where some of the children were standing, and apparently discarded there, deputies found a clear bag containing a white substance in it that tested positive for oxycodone, the narcotic. It had been crushed.
All the juveniles were required to contact parents or guardians to pick them up. Those that couldn’t were taken by friends. “Juveniles that were driving were first confirmed to have consumed no alcohol before being permitted to leave,” the report states.
Myers was booked at the Flagler County jail and released on $1,000 bond within five hours of her booking. The misdemeanor charges she faces typically result in a brief probationary term of a few months, if the State Attorney prosecutes.
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Land of no turn signals says says
Hope everyone was wearing a mask.
palmcoaster says
First of all I like your pseudo…you are right regarding our PC land, second I laughed at your sense of humor about the masks in such a gathering…oh yeah! Though I wear my two masks where ever I go out the house into any shop.
Jane Gentile-Youd says
Is this the future for all of us normal people in Flagler? Oy vey…
Mary Rodriguez says
Wow, Jane if that’s not calling the kettle black.
Jimbo99 says
I think as big as this party shutdown was, FCSO needed to arrest juveniles and get DCF/Juvenile involved just the same, handle it like a sting operation for child molesters or drugs. There’s 33 involved here, 14 self admitted that were drinking at the very least, not to mention the 50 year old woman. FCSO should have at least a list of the next DUI & drug abusers that the rest of us have to deal with as the troublemakers in any given residential area. Probably started as a smaller group of minors that escalated by smartphone social texting ? This was 1/2 way between FL 100 & Destination Daytona give or take, just West of I-95.
palmcoaster says
I guess our jails no matter how many and how costly we build them are not enough for all the law breakers…So sheriff does what he can with the tools afforded? Meanwhile they tell the judges ” your Honor we have no more space what about some substance detox program…please?” At least for the juveniles.
Gonedownhillagain says
Wait a minute, the Deputies found numerous narcotics inside the residence where the owner hosted a party for underage kids allowing them to use narcotics and consume alcohol and she was only charged with a misdemeanor ?
Denali says
Too much work to make the case for a felony charge – – – and like the article implies, it is questionable if the State Attorney will even prosecute.
FedUpInFlagler says
I’m pretty sure this woman’s husband is a police officer so that would explain the slap on the wrist. Also she worked at Imagine when my kids used to go there. Not sure if she’s still an employee but I’d hope they would keep her as far away from there as possible
Anon says
She quit a while ago.
palmcoaster says
Typical slap on the wrist….In around 2005 a Sheriff Fleming, deputy called for about the same issue next door to my house that arrived in one of two cruisers told me if was him enduring the same problem he will move away…so I reply over my dead body. The he added they were calling the minors parents to be picked up and the 18 year old alone hosting the party in absence of his father will me “amonished” whatever he meant with that. Overtime that house thanks to city code enforcement piled so many violations fines that under threat of foreclosure was sold. Thank God and good riddance. The new owners thou hold some noisy parties occasionally but not every week and do not go out drag speeding while DUI.
Oh my my says
Teenagers Smoking weed and drinking hard lemonade in Florida on a Saturday night? Heavens to betsey, say it aint so.
Anonymous says
She is NOT married to a cop!
T says
Well she needs to be charged with all crimes point blank thats bs
ASF says
According to this woman’s website, she works for the Imagine school–I hope, no longer.
Since when did “Contributing to the delinquency of a Minor” become “nuttin’ honey’? Or is it only a serious matter when it involves a male perpetrator?
Billy says
These kids are going to smoke weed and drink beer anyway. It’s better if they are safe in a private residence instead of out on the streets. I would hope the homeowner wasn’t going to let anyone leave that had been drinking.
Vlad Jean-Fraincois says
A while adult
That one Guy says
She literally doesnt care. Her children brag about how they do whatever they want and she KNOWS. Im glad to see her stupidity has caught up with her.
TheTruth says
What is wrong with the State Prosecutor and these Flagler County Judges? What law school did they go to? Are they serious that this lady got misdemeanor charges and a few months probation.
There is no other State in this country that a State Prosecutor would ONLY hand down misdemeanor charges to someone that allowed narcotics and alcohol to under aged children. What is going on in this State because it appears no one seems to care about the protection of children and that is including the Governor of this state.
This should hit national news and lets see what the public thinks about this.
Concerned Citizen says
Why isn’t her mug shot posted/
Everyone else that gets arrested has to go thru the humiliation. What makes her different? Why use a stock image?
FlaglerLive says
Because absent more serious charges–these were misdemeanors–posting the mugshot of the individual was not warranted. The article is intended to inform, not humiliate.
The Geode says
I see PLENTY of people I know that get their mugshots posted for driving with a suspended license, disorderly conduct, and child support. What provokes THEIR mugshot to be “posted for humiliation”?
Maybe it’s not “who” they are rather than “what” they are – it’s those types of exclusions and omissions you are now defending that breathes life into discrimination, biases, and racism…
FlaglerLive says
Not on this site you don’t. Not in years.