Crime & Safety

Minooka Family Returns Home to Find Home "Trashed"

ABC News reports the family gave a key to a local teenager to care for a pet and found their home had been used for parties while they were away.

It's a story that is almost too unbelievable to be real. Minooka residents Theresa and Alan Donley went on vacation earlier this summer and left the key to their home with a neighbor, who was responsible for watering the plants and feeding the pets. Instead, ABC reporters Chuck Goudie and Ross Weidner are reporting the home was used for a "drug-fueled party house."

The ABC story details proof of drug use, vomit on the carpet and that the teens who used the house for four days even wore Alan Donley's clothes.

"They slept, they ate, they took showers, they brushed their teeth upstairs with the toothbrushes you get from the dentist," Alan Donley said in the ABC Local story. "They wore my clothes because they ran out of their own clean clothes."

But, no charges have been filed.

"It's case closed at this point, the case has been resolved," Grundy County State's Attorney Jason Helland told ABC local.

"Helland says he isn't filing any more charges because they can't prove who did what and that the partiers didn't have criminal intent to damage the home," the ABC story states.

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