Police broke up a Halloween party in St. Joseph last week and issued nearly 60 tickets for underage drinking.

The St. Joseph Police Department said officers were called to the 2500 block of Olive St. just before 1 a.m.

“It came in as a citizen complaint,” Sgt. Larry Stobbs with SJPD said. “College kids lived there, there were like three or four that lived there and they had about 100 people over there.”

Stobbs said it took about three hours to process all of the kids through the breath tests and issuing summons.

“The best thing for us to do is get them closed down and get them all taken care of and get them a safe ride home because if you just sent two cops there and they scatter that crowd then you have 50 or 60 underage kids getting into cars and heading down the road and they could get into a wreck,” Stobbs said.

Police had to have an ambulance come by to check on three people.

“One of the was completely passed out in the basement, the other two kept nodding off and puking, probably had fairly high alcohol contents,” Stobbs said.

He said four officers with the Midland Empire Alcohol Task Force and two uniformed officers responded to the scene. Stobbs said the minors were turned over to sober adults.