UCONN Police arrest 52 during week-end www.privateofficer.com

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STORRS CT. April 30 2008

By: Bryan Hill

Security News Magazine

www.privateofficer.com — University police stayed busy during this past week-end. Police at the University of Connecticut say that arrested fifty-one people during the annual three-day spring weekend at UConn, according to campus police.

Police said Sunday that 30 of those arrested were not UConn students or affiliated with the university.

The arrests were made for charges including narcotics offenses, underage possession of alcohol, forgery, criminal impersonation, interfering with police, breach of peace, driving under the influence and weapons offenses.

Police said that most of the 21 arrests made Saturday night and Sunday morning occurred at the X parking lot and the area surrounding it on the UConn campus.

Eight of those arrests were UConn students, police said.

Police estimated that as many as 12,000 people were gathered in the X parking lot. Authorities ended the gathering about 12:30 a.m, police said.
Police also arrested 11 people Thursday night and 19 people Friday night.

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