NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
May 6, 2008
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
(850) 651-7420
DEPUTIES WRITE MORE THAN
260 UNDERAGE ALCOHOL CITATIONS
High
School students made up more than half the number of offenders cited for
underage alcohol possession– with 166 citations.
Here’s a
partial breakdown on the notices to appear:
LOUISIANA:
29 college students
54 high school students
ALABAMA:
22 college students
30 high school students
MISSISSIPPI:
17 college students
11 high school students
GEORGIA:
9 college students
12 high school students
LOCALS:
2 college students
7 high school students
Underage
alcohol possession citations were also written to multiple students from the
states of Kentucky, North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Indiana, Arkansas,
Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Maryland, and New Jersey.
Sgt. Ted
Pecot of the Sheriff’s Office Beach and Marine Unit says the goal was prevention
– to make contact with underage Spring Breakers who were drinking and prevent
them from getting intoxicated and causing other problems.
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