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GBD police arrests double from last year
Caroline Briggs
Issue date: 3/23/07 Section: Community
While the week of spring break saw a lull in police activity in Oxford, Green Beer Day March 8 saw a total of 34 arrests - doubling last year's 17.
Sgt. Jim Squance of the Oxford Police Department (OPD) believed that the sunny weather during that Thursday resulted in the increase in arrests.
"People partied all day and into the night," Squance said. "There was no reason (Miami University) students might have stopped partying and gone inside this year."
A large factor of student's all-day drinking was the change from wintry to warm spring weather, according to Squance. Students were also not impeded by rain, as they were during last year's Green Beer Day. The time proximity of spring break may have also caused further student drinking.
Despite the heightened activity of Green Beer Day, local police departments got a break after the celebration's surge of arrests. The week of spring break resulted in only 15 reports, which is a quiet week according to Squance.
Students were involved in just two of the incidences during spring break, including a burglary at 902 Arrowhead Dr. and a stolen car stereo and CDs on Foxfire Drive.
On Green Beer Day, OPD recorded five DUI arrests, nine underage intoxication citations, three open container citations, five public intoxication citations, four littering tickets and eight other miscellaneous tickets.
The Butler County DUI Taskforce did not arrest any drunk drivers in any of their three DUI checkpoints the night before Green Beer Day, though OPD did arrest five drivers during the day.
College students from Miami were responsible for three of the five DUI citations.
One of the DUI incidences included Miami first-year Mathew Glaab in a potential vehicular fire. According to the report, an Oxford resident reported a car on Contreras Street highly revving its engine while in park.
According to police, when OPD arrived at the scene, they found Glaab passed out in the driver's seat of a car that had smoke coming from under the hood. The report said police also heard the car's engine over their sirens, and the RPM of the car was at its maximum on the dashboard.
Sgt. Jim Squance of the Oxford Police Department (OPD) believed that the sunny weather during that Thursday resulted in the increase in arrests.
"People partied all day and into the night," Squance said. "There was no reason (Miami University) students might have stopped partying and gone inside this year."
A large factor of student's all-day drinking was the change from wintry to warm spring weather, according to Squance. Students were also not impeded by rain, as they were during last year's Green Beer Day. The time proximity of spring break may have also caused further student drinking.
Despite the heightened activity of Green Beer Day, local police departments got a break after the celebration's surge of arrests. The week of spring break resulted in only 15 reports, which is a quiet week according to Squance.
Students were involved in just two of the incidences during spring break, including a burglary at 902 Arrowhead Dr. and a stolen car stereo and CDs on Foxfire Drive.
On Green Beer Day, OPD recorded five DUI arrests, nine underage intoxication citations, three open container citations, five public intoxication citations, four littering tickets and eight other miscellaneous tickets.
The Butler County DUI Taskforce did not arrest any drunk drivers in any of their three DUI checkpoints the night before Green Beer Day, though OPD did arrest five drivers during the day.
College students from Miami were responsible for three of the five DUI citations.
One of the DUI incidences included Miami first-year Mathew Glaab in a potential vehicular fire. According to the report, an Oxford resident reported a car on Contreras Street highly revving its engine while in park.
According to police, when OPD arrived at the scene, they found Glaab passed out in the driver's seat of a car that had smoke coming from under the hood. The report said police also heard the car's engine over their sirens, and the RPM of the car was at its maximum on the dashboard.
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