Police say locals fairly calm on New Year’s Eve
Posted on Monday, January 2, 2006
BENTON COUNTY — Inside the city limits of Bentonville and Rogers, most residents rang in the new year safely Saturday night, with only a few alcohol-related arrests and wrecks reported by Bentonville and Rogers police.
Dahrron Moss, an officer with the Bentonville Police Department, said New Year’s Eve was mostly calm in Bentonville, with no alcohol-related wrecks or drunken-driving arrests to report. "People policed themselves pretty well," Moss said Sunday.
Sergeant Miles Mason, of the Rogers Police Department, said Rogers was "fairly calm" as well but still busier than previous New Year’s Eve holidays.
In Rogers, there were two drunken-driving arrests, several disturbances and a brief pursuit. Of the two alcohol-related arrests, one resulted from an alcohol-related accident. No one was injured in the accident, Mason said. "It was probably busier that the last two years," Mason said. "I think what led to that was the warm weather and the fact that (the holiday) fell on a weekend."
Mason added that nine drunken-driving arrests were made between 12:30 a.m. Friday and 5 p.m. Sunday. Two of those arrests resulted from alcohol-related accidents. No one was injured in the accidents.
Local law-enforcement agencies urged residents last week to celebrate the holiday safely. Benton County Sheriff Keith Ferguson went so far as to remind party-goers that he is the proprietor of "the largest bed and breakfast in Benton County, where no reservation is necessary and there is always a vacancy." Representatives from the BCSO could not be reached Sunday to confirm the number of people who actually spent New Year’s Day in the Benton County Jail because of alcohol-related arrests in the county.
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