Crime Blotter: About 20 Teens Gather in School Parking Lot for Fight

Brawl at dusk leaves boys with minor injuries

Several teenagers had minor face injuries when arrived around 8 p.m. Jan. 4 to the parking lot to break up a fight.

According to the police report, about 20 teens had gathered in the parking lot to witness a fight among individuals who had a falling out and had been insulting each other on Facebook. The teens agreed to meet at the parking lot "to fight and get it over with." No weapons were involved.

Car headlights shone on the parties during the nighttime confrontation.

At one point, some friends got involved and a total of 14 boys, who are 17 years old, were eventually detained by police. Paramedics came to the scene to examine those involved, but none of them were seriously injured, police said.

No one wanted to press charges, as "the subjects felt that the matter was solved with the physical fight because both proved it to their friends who witnessed it," the report states.

Parents were notified of the incident, police said.

Alleged drunken driver causes crash

A 46-year-old unidentified man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after he caused a crash on Green Street near Huntley late New Year's Day, New Baltimore police said.

No one was injured in the two-car crash around 9 p.m. Jan. 1.

The man, who drove a 2010 Jeep, admitted to side-swiping a Mercury and subsequently failed field sobriety tests. A Breathalyzer resulted in a .23% blood-alcohol level—well above the state's legal limit of .08 percent for driving, police said.

His vehicle was impounded and he was held in Macomb County Jail in lieu of a $300 bond, police said.

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