Who is sydney spies

By Lydia Warren. A teenager who attracted national attention when her racy high school yearbook photo was rejected for being too revealing has been arrested at a house party - along with her mother.

Sydney Spies, 18, allegedly tried to stop police arresting her mother, Denise 'Miki' Spies, who attempted to run away when authorities found teenagers drinking alcohol in her home. Police arrived to find numerous underage drinkers with a beer keg, liquor bottles and cups of alcohol at the home in Durango, Colorado, at Scroll down for video. Caught: Sydney Spies, left, shot to fame after her racy yearbook photo was rejected by her school. She has now been arrested along with her mother, Denise 'Miki' Spies, right, at a party at their home.

When partygoers spotted the police, they hopped over a chain-link fence in the back garden and ran up a steep hill behind the house, The Durango Herald reported. Police approached Miki Spies, 45, and she allegedly refused to give her name or date of birth. She then 'broke into a full sprint for her front door', according to an incident report. Officers chased her to her bedroom where she tried to slam the door.

After a struggle, she was arrested. Her daughter had allegedly tried to stop police from catching her mother. When the teen was arrested for obstructing a police officer and put in a patrol car, she attempted to escape. Uproar: Spies had submitted this photograph for the yearbook but the committee deemed it inappropriate.

On Facebook page on Monday evening, she posted: 'I just love being targeted. What a bunch of BS. But it's not the first arrest for her mother, who was charged with resisting arrest, obstructing a police officer and trespassing for making noise in a church park early on June 24, records show. As she was arrested, she began yelling that police were only called because she was a lesbian and shouted obscenities about Christians at the church's pastor, who had asked her to be quiet.

As police carried her to the car, she went limp and appeared as if she had been drinking. She then said, "Well, you suck at it". Not shy: The exposure following the scandal led to a small movie role in a Syfy movie for Spies.

She has pleaded not guilty to all three charges and has a pre-trial conference on Tuesday. It is not the sort of attention Spies wished to garner after hitting headlines for the provocative photograph that was rejected by the yearbook committee at Durango High School in January. Keep Westword Free. The yearbook photo that started it all.

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Contact: Michael Roberts. Follow: Facebook: Michael Roberts. Twitter: mikerobertscolo. Don't Miss Out. But in the end I allow them to make their own decisions resulting in their own successes or failures," she wrote. Following the controversy, Spies landed a small role in an upcoming movie, "American Horror House," scheduled to air on the SyFy channel on Halloween.

Her mother, Miki, was arrested June 24 on suspicion of trespassing, resisting arrest and obstructing a police officer in a case in which she and another woman were reported being loud and refusing to leave private property.

She was scheduled to appear in court today for those charges, the Herald reports. All rights reserved. ABC News.