Party’s Over : 2 Boys Back Home After a Spree With Drug Money

Two teen-agers who went on a cross-country spending spree after finding $8,000 in drug money were back home in Petaluma Friday.

The boys arrived at San Francisco International Airport late Thursday night on tickets they bought at the start of their odyssey. Security was tight and a crowd of reporters waited inside the airport.

But most of the media waited in vain, because the two boys, aged 13 and 14, did not go through the airport terminal. The youths, dressed casually in jeans and tennis shoes, were escorted off the plane, into a waiting car and whisked away by plainclothes detectives.

Undercover police in Columbus, Ohio, had escorted them onto the jetliner at Columbus airport Thursday afternoon after drug-abuse charges were dismissed against the two.

The boys’ adventure began Nov. 26 in Petaluma when they found the money in a suitcase that apparently had been thrown from a house where officers investigating cocaine dealing were serving an arrest warrant. The teen-agers then began spending the money on a limousine, hotels, food, clothing and the airline tickets to Columbus via Chicago.

The two spent at least $3,000 during their four-day escapade. It ended Sunday in Columbus after police were told the teen-agers had been handing out $100 tips.