Police arrest more than 150 over holiday weekend

Sue Doyle

NEWPORT BEACH -- Authorities made more than 100 alcohol-related

arrests and reported two assaults with a deadly weapon over the holiday

weekend.

But Newport Beach police reported no major incidents on the Fourth of

July or the prior weekend.

In all, there were 156 arrests -- 20 of those were felony cases and

another 20 involved juveniles, said Sgt. Mike McDermott of the Newport

Beach Police Department.

One man was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon

after he allegedly threw a bottle of beer at an officer who was breaking

up a party on 43rd Street. The bottle just missed the officer’s head,

McDermott said.

However, some of the party-goers hunted down the alleged

bottle-thrower and turned him into authorities, McDermott said.

The other assault involved a domestic violence incident, where a woman

allegedly stabbed her partner.

Authorities are still working on all the paperwork from the holiday

and did not have offenders’ names processed yet.

Last year, approximately 180 arrests were made -- far fewer than

totals from the late 1980s, when as many as 300 to 400 arrests were made,

McDermott said.