Quinceañera Ends In Fight, Officers Assaulted
Eight People Arrested Following A Help An Officer Call At A Rental Hall
POSTED: 11:41 pm CDT September 18, 2010
UPDATED: 10:50 pm CDT September 19, 2010

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BELLEVUE, Neb. -- Police said eight people were arrested when a fight broke out during a quinceañera at a Bellevue rental hall on Saturday night.

Officers said they were called to 6902 Railroad Ave. at about 10:30 p.m. on Saturday and found a number of people fighting in the parking lot when they got there.

Lt. Tom Dargy of Bellevue Police Department told KETV NewsWatch 7 that the fight started when someone causing a problem at the rental hall was thrown out. Dargy said soon after, several people jumped on at least four private security officers at the event. Security then called police for back up.

Dargy said two Bellevue police officers were assaulted, one was kicked in the head and the other was hit in the face. Dargy told KETV NewsWatch 7 that someone threw several beer bottles at a third officer, but none of them hit the officer. At that time, one of the officers made a help-an-officer call and several Bellevue and Omaha police officers and Sarpy County deputies responded.

Medics took two people to the hospital. Dargy said police used a Taser on one of them and the other was injured during the fight and may have suffered a broken leg. Two others were pepper sprayed, but did not seek medical treatment.

When the situation got under control, police arrested six people. Dargy said three of them would be booked on suspicion of assaulting a police officer and the others will be booked for assault.

Dargy said several factors complicated efforts to get control of the situation and sort out the problem.

"It's difficult when you get here," he said. "You try to contain it the best you can and sort out the problem. There's a lot of intoxication and a language barrier. People don't know what's going on, which makes things difficult for us."

A quinceañera is a Latin American tradition to celebrate a girl's 15th birthday, marking the transition from a girl to a woman.

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The Kearney Hub has a more detailed article on this. Unfortunately they didn't have the article online. They reported that five uspects were detained by ICE and that they were still investigating the status of three other suspects.