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Jersey Shore woman faces charges after allegedly hosting underage drinking party at her home

Lori R. Fuller, 53, of 303 Oak St., Jersey Shore, faces multiple misdemeanor offenses for serving alcohol to a dozen people under 21 at a New Year’s Eve party she hosted at her home, Lycoming Regional police alleged in an affidavit filed at the office of District Judge Denise Dieter.

Officers were dispatched about 12:15 a.m. on Jan. 1 to investigate “a loud altercation” outside her home. When they arrived in the area, one officer encountered two people; one of whom was “yelling and screaming hysterically” while a second officer came upon two other individuals nearby, it was stated in the court document. Three of the four “were intoxicated,” all of them had exited Fuller’s home, police said.

Fuller soon came out of the back of the house and admitted that the foursome were at a “New Year’s gathering at her house and that she was planning to take them home because they had caused a raucous. One of them had been in a physical altercation inside the house” with another partygoer, the officers were told. Fuller allowed the officers into the house, where they found six youths inside an upstairs room. An empty can of an alcoholic beverage was spotted on the floor. All were told to come downstairs and join other youths who were being questioned. “”The party’s over,” the officer told the group, which consisted of at least 12 people who were underage, three of whom were under 18, according to the court document. In addition to drinking alcoholic beverages, some of the partygoers also admitted to smoking marijuana, police said.

Charged with 12 counts of serving alcohol to those underage and three counts of corrupting the morals of a minor, Fuller has been sent a summons to appear before Dieter.

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