Women from across the region descended on the KDWB Booty Cruise at the St. Croix Boat & Packet for a booze-filled three-hour tour June 4. This women-only event has become notorious for drunken and disorderly conduct by the intoxicated females when they disembark the boat. The recent cruise was the first of three scheduled for this summer, and Stillwater police reported interactions with five intoxicated women.
According to police reports, a 27-year-old Minneapolis woman and a 33-year-old Edina woman had exited the KDWB Booty Cruise and were drinking at the Freight House around midnight. The 27-year-old woman called police twice saying that she was being held captive in a “Christian facility.” The 33-year-old woman then got on the line saying that her friend was hallucinating and her dad was coming to pick her up. Police responded to the Freight House and located the women. The 27-year-old woman stated that she suffered from PTSD and apologized for calling police.
Two men were fishing from the Lift Bridge around 3 a.m. June 5 and called police to report an intoxicated woman who was harassing them and jumping in front of a vehicle. When police arrived, they found a 41-year-old St. Paul woman with the fisherman. Police reports state the woman had a blood alcohol level of 0.219 and didn’t have money for a cab ride home. Both the Ramsey and Dakota County detox were full, so the Stillwater Police notified a State Patrol officer, who took the woman home.
A group of women staying at the Best Western called police to report a missing person at 8:30 a.m. June 5. A Brooklyn Park woman had left a bar at 2 a.m. with an unknown male, and could not be contacted on the phone, police reports say. The woman then appeared and advised that she was OK after having a “fine time on the booze cruise.”
A woman living on the 500 block of Second Street reported that an unknown woman was pounding on her door at 3:30 a.m. June 5. When the caller went to see if the stranger was OK, the unknown woman began yelling obscenities and walked away, police reports say. When the caller left for work in the morning, she found a purse in the yard. Police recovered the purse and returned it to a 34-year-old Stillwater woman who admitted to being very intoxicated on the booze cruise. She was “very apologetic,” according to police.
Contact Alicia Lebens at alicia.lebens@ecm-inc.com