Crime & Safety
Busted with Alcohol, 18 Years Old & Had to Be Released to His Parent
No, he wasn't driving. He was skateboarding. That's Police Department policy — if you're under 21 and found with alcohol, your Mom or Dad gets a call to pick you up.
Following a report of youths seen with alcohol on the middle of the street on Brookside Road near Three Wells Lane late on the morning of June 19, police sent out a patrol car.
Darien police gave this account (an accusation not proven in court, then again, no one's going to court) of what happened next:
(Not a whole lot happened, actually.)
On seeing the cop approach, two of the males turned onto Ridge Acres and skeedadled through the back yards of various homes. Police never saw them again. One young man complied with police instructions to stay where he was.
The young man is an 18-year-old Darien resident. Police smelled alcohol on him. Police did NOT say he was intoxicated. He wasn't carrying anything illegal on him and wasn't seen doing anything illegal. No containers of alcohol were found.
But police were certain he had been drinking that morning. They called one of his parents, who came by, and they released him to that parent. That's department policy, a police spokesman said, and this is being reproted here because we thought people in town might want to know.
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