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Underage Drinking

Monday, December 10, 2012

30 Whitman Students Receive Alcohol Citations Following House Party

Some students face consequences on-campus, Whitman's Black and White reports.

Thirty juveniles received alcohol citations for attending a Bethesda house party this month where liquor was available, Montgomery County police said Monday. And according to a report in Walt Whitman’s student newspaper, The Black and White, those cited were Whitman students and some will face on-campus discipline. The house party was reported Dec. 1 in the 6200 block of Wiscasset place in Bethesda, according to police spokeswoman Officer Janelle Smith. Police spokeswoman Officer Britta Thomas told The Black and White that Fire and Rescue was called after one guest appeared to be highly intoxicated. Police who responded issued sobriety tests and cited some students for alcohol possession, according to the report. Smith told Patch that 30 …

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Adreas Belon

3:33 am on Saturday, December 15, 2012

Whitman Parent: these people like Jack who waste their time arguing that kids are over privileged and that the solution to stopping underage drinking is to not have birthday parties for kids at all because its kids 'today' are ill-bred reckless indigents are people who have the mental capacity of a rodent. Get off your high horse as if drinking underage should even be a headline. Beer and wine …   more ›

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Patch Asks: Are Underage Drinking Parties a Problem in Montgomery County?

Underage drinking parties are on the rise throughout the county, according to police—and parents may be partially to blame.

  It’s not just kids that need alcohol education on the hazards of underage drinking. It’s parents, too. Underage drinking parties, many of them parent-hosted, are on the rise throughout the county, according to a Gazette report released Wednesday. At a Jan. 26 press conference, Montgomery County Police displayed stacks of kegs and 24-packs of beer seized from underage drinking parties in the county. A task force of local police agencies busted 23 underage drinking parties and issued 239 alcohol citations to youth in possession of or providing alcohol, between Nov. 16 and Jan. 7, said Capt. Thomas Didone of the Montgomery County Police Department. Six underage drivers in violation of alcohol restrictions were also arrested, The Gazette …

Lynne A

1:47 pm on Sunday, February 12, 2012

"Many years ago, when my now adult children were in high school, a friends home was visited by law enforcement. This was an affluent subdivision where life was quiet. When the police asked my friends husband if there were kids drinking in the house, he explained that his daughter had some friends over and everything was under control, which it was. He proceeded to explain that perhaps their …   more ›

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