Crime Blotter

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LEWISTON, Maine

There wasn’t much of a trick to the undercover bust that cops treated themselves to at a Halloween rave and costume party over the weekend.

Police Sergeant Michael McGonagle says officers from the Lewiston Police Department and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency dressed up as 1960s-era hippies and flower children to blend in with the crowd at the Central Maine Civic Center in Lewiston.

The officers seized three-thousand dollars in cash and a cache of drugs that included 104 hits of Ecstasy, 59 hits of LSD, a quarter ounce of cocaine, 24 baggies of ketamine, two marijuana cigarettes, one large vial of PCP and a cigarette dipped in the drug.

Eleven adults and three juveniles arrested at the party face drug trafficking charges.The event had been advertised as a costume party.

Drunken Horse-Riding’s No Crime

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.

Is it a crime to ride a horse drunk?

Police supervisors in Little Rock apparently don’t think so.

They’ve suspended a state trooper after she arrested a man for riding his horse while intoxicated.

Trooper Jana Cordes charged Jeffrey Baldridge with driving while intoxicated after the horse was struck by a car on U.S. Highway 62 in Carroll County.

But state police say Cordes should never have filed the charge. Baldridge has since sued Cordes for allegedly violating his civil rights.

Police say Cordes interpreted an old Arkansas law to apply traffic charges to people riding bicycles and animals on state highways.

State police supervisors do NOT agree with her interpretation, and Cordes has been suspended with pay while the agency conducts and internal investigation.

Coffeehouse Video Peeper Charged

BRANFORD, Conn.

People are used to the occasional odd behavior in coffeehouses.

But employees at a shop called Common Grounds found it extremely suspicious when a co-worker began spending a lot of time around the bathroom staring into a gym bag.

It turns out, police said, that the worker, Alex Saleeby, had set up and tiny video camera in the bathroom, and was using a monitor in his bag to spy on people using the facilities.

Branford police arrested Saleeby and charged him under the state’s new anti-voyeurism law that was passed in response to an earlier case where a teenager was accused of taping female classmates as they changed for pool parties at his house.

Crime Blotter is a weekly feature compiled by Michael McAuliff at ABCNEWS.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report.