Spring breaker is arrested for underage drinking on Florida beach

A spring breaker was snapped being handcuffed by police after she was caught drinking despite being underage on a Florida beach.

The unidentified woman was seen with handcuffs tied behind her back on Daytona Beach after she was busted for boozing under the age of 21.

She was also snapped grimacing before being led away, with deputies also targeting other underage drinkers on the beach.

One man looked thoroughly-annoyed as cops poured away what appeared to be a bottle of Courvoisier brandy. Drinking alcohol is banned on Daytona Beach, unless it is at one of the licensed bars that line its sands.

Cops warned many beachgoers that local rules must be followed.

Those include: no tents, coolers, or any other folding furniture that can go into the sand. Live and amplified music is also not allowed while underage drinking, as well as public intoxication on the beach and sidewalks will be prohibited.

Electric or motorized scooters are also banned from being used until further notice.

Police departments in the Sunshine State are facing a particularly busy time period as the Tampa Bay Times estimates that 570,000 students will be going on holiday on Florida’s beaches this month and in April. Last year, there was a dismal 1,500 people a day flying to Florida and 2021 saw a crowd of about 65,000 Spring Breakers. 

The most hectic period of Spring Break is expected to be between March 5 and March 20.  

Other revelers were seen having a much better time, as they were soaking up the sun while day-drinking, shot-gunning beers and drinking from beer bongs while dressed in bikinis and bathing suits.

Some were also spotted playing ball games in the water while others were seen casually walking along the beach with surfboards. A group of young men also ran football drills to a large crowd in sunny Daytona.   

There was some wrestling action on the beach too, with several young men and women pictured trying to take one another down to the sandy floor.

The crowds around them cheered and filmed the playful moments on their phones when a woman in an orange bikini slammed a football onto the sand in vanquish, with many her raising her arm in support.   

Meanwhile, it was reported on Friday that six cadets at West Point – a US military academy –  had been found unresponsive at a Fort Lauderdale property, after reportedly overdosing on fentanyl-laced cocaine, according to Local10. 

Two of the cadets had not ingested the drugs but were overcome by the effects of fentanyl when they attempted to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on their sickened friends, the Orlando Sun-Sentinel first reported.

DailyMail.com reached the US Army Academy at West Point and was told by a representative that the college was ‘aware’ of the incident in Florida involving its students.

News helicopter video shows paramedics converging on the front yard of a short-term vacation rental home on NW 29th Court in Wilton Manors, where multiple people were found in cardiac arrest at 5pm.

Footage from the scene shows first responders administering first aid and placing several individuals onto stretchers.

Fort Lauderdale Fire Department Battalion Chief Steve Gollan told Local10 that two of the people who overdosed were sickened because they tried to perform CPR on the initial four overdose victims.

He said the opioid-overdose-reversing drug naloxone, which is sold under the brand name Narcan, was administered to revive the victims. 

Neighbors described seeing the spring breakers being carried out of the rental home crowded with young vacationers.

‘We saw paramedics pulling the kids out of the house, unconscious, just laying them on the grass,’ Dana Fumosa, who lives a few doors down, told NBC6.

Four of the patients were taken to Broward Health Medical Center, and the remaining two were transported to Holy Cross Hospital.

By Friday, one of the patients had been released from the hospital, two remained in critical condition after being intubated, and three were in stable condition.

‘These are healthy young adults, college students in the prime of their life,’ Gollan said. ‘Getting this drug into their system, it’s unknown what the recovery will be on the critical individual.’

Axel Giovany Casseus, 21, of Lauderhill, near Fort Lauderdale, was arrested on Friday night in Wilton Manors, Florida, for allegedly selling cocaine to an undercover officer. He’s believed to be connected to the overdoses.

He was charged with one felony count of trafficking cocaine of less than 200 grams and is being held at the Broward Main Jail, with bail set at $50,000, according to The Sun-Sentinel.

Authorities allege that Casseus sold 43 grams of cocaine Friday to an undercover detective, who followed him back to a hotel, according to WPLG.

A seventh individual, only identified as a woman, was later taken to the hospital and treated, as well, the Sun-Sentinel reported.

It is unclear if she suffered an overdose or what condition she is in. It is also unknown if she attended West Point with the other patients.

Fentanyl is an unpredictable and powerful synthetic painkiller blamed for driving an increase in fatal drug overdoses. It’s 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine and used to treat severe pain, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. It also slows a person’s breathing and heart rate.

Neighbors in Wilton Manors told the Sun-Sentinel that the West Point cadets had been staying at the rental property for several days, and that on Wednesday night police were called for an unspecified reason.

Two local residents said they have repeatedly complained to the managers of the vacation property about excessive noise and rowdy parties.

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