Thursday, May 20, 1999
45 arrests after Kings Island 'Grad Night'
33 charged with underage drinking
BY SHEILA McLAUGHLIN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
A crackdown on teen-age revelers after the Paramount's Kings Island Grad Night on Friday netted 45 arrests — 33 of them for underage drinking, sheriff's officials reported Tuesday.
Fair skies, as well as more police and state liquor agents on patrol, were responsible for a 67 percent increase in overall arrests compared to last year, authorities said.
Police from Mason, the Warren County Sheriff's Office and about two dozen state liquor agents targeted businesses, hotels and parking lots surrounding the park Friday, on the lookout for underage drinking, rowdy behavior, drug abuse and traffic violations after the 4 p.m. to midnight event.
Kings Island holds the event each year to honor graduating high school seniors in the Tristate. Between 10,000 and 12,000 people were expected at Friday's celebration.
Nine of the drinking arrests were for teens under 18.
“It really wasn't a rowdy crowd. Even though arrests were up, the crowd was not that disorderly,” Sheriff's Capt. Gary Miller said.
In addition to the law enforcement sweep, sheriff's deputies and state troopers issued 256 citations, warnings and arrests in a traffic “blitz” Friday through Sunday in conjunction with Grad Night.
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