Allegedly Lost En Route to Strip Club, Woman Busted for Drugs as Friend Cruises Police Station Parking Lot

Reportedly looking for the Beach Girls strip club early Friday morning, a Des Moines woman found trouble instead – trouble, as in illegal possession of Schedule II narcotics kind of trouble.

How West Des Moines police happened on a drug stash allegedly belonging to Alexandria Kay Siddens, 20, of 650 42nd St., Des Moines, is a bit of a fluke.

About 2:15 a.m. Friday, Officers Ken Brock and D.J. Frunzar were parked side-by-side at the service entrance to the West Des Moines Police Station, a drive clearly marked for authorized personnel only, when a car in which Siddens was a passenger pulled into the drive.

When officers stepped out of their vehicles to talk the driver, a male who was not charged, “he drove past me through our parking lot, … behind the range building and up the private drive to our overhead garage doors,” reportedly treating the parking lot as if it were a public street.

The driver finally did stop when Frunzar, who was in pursuit, activated his lights.

When police asked them what they were doing, the pair said they were looking for Beach Girls, located in a secluded area at 6220 Raccoon River Drive. The police station is located at 250 Westown Parkway, about four miles away.

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The vehicle reportedly smelled of marijuana. A search of the driver revealed no drugs, but police found a burnt end of a marijuana cigarette and a bag with marijuana residue in the car – a find the driver dismissed as old, explaining that he is on probation and hasn’t “smoked any lately.”

The marijuana roach and bag were destroyed, according to the report.

When Brock told Siddens authorities planned to search her purse, she admitted they would find “morphine and a painkiller,” drugs she claimed were “prescribed for an illness I would not understand,” Brock reported.

The search revealed both hydrocodone and Elmiron, as well as a driver’s license belonging to a New Jersey woman, Brock reported.

Siddens was seated in the back seat of Brock’s police car at the time, as she was not wearing a coat, the officer said.

While Frunzar was questioning the driver of the car, Siddens reportedly became anxious and “began crying and wanted to know if [her friend] was in trouble,” Brock reported. “She said that she wanted to get arrested also if he was getting arrested. She said she didn’t want to jut sit there and that if I was going to take her to jail, she he wanted to go. ?

Siddens was released to the custody of her father.

During several phone calls made at jail, Siddens reportedly referred several times to the pills that  someone named “Roger” put them in her purse.