Crime & Safety
Athens Ridge Fight And Arrest Are The Exception, Oconee County Sheriff's Office Records Show
Several 911 callers reported a fight underway at the student complex, and deputy reported seeing people fleeing as he arrived.
The fight and arrest on a charge of underage possession of alcohol early in the morning of Jan. 4 at Athens Ridge, the student housing complex on Old Macon Highway, was an exception, a review of records of the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office shows.
Going back to when the townhouse complex opened at the beginning of the academic year in August, records show only one other incident that clearly involved alcohol. That event also was this year, on the morning of Jan. 1.
Shortly before 3 a.m. on Jan. 4, Sheriff Deputy Matt Towe responded to several 911 calls about a fight underway at the student complex that involved 20 to 30 males.
Towe arrested Nicholas Bryant, 18, Lawrenceville, and charged him with underage possession of alcohol, a misdemeanor.
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