PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) – Florida officials say they try to crack down on underage drinking every spring in the city where a Notre Dame football recruit died in a drunken fall.
Seventeen-year-old Matt James died Friday when he fell from a fifth-floor hotel balcony in Panama City in the Florida Panhandle. Police say the 290-pound offensive lineman was drunk. He was on spring break with six chaperones and 40 fellow students from St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati.
The Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco said Monday it sends 18 extra agents to Panama City during spring break because of the high school and college students who go there.
Between March 11 and March 28, agents arrested 985 people in Panama City for underage possession of an alcoholic beverage.
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