A 17-year-old boy took a drunken fall down a flight of stairs when sheriff’s deputies stormed an illegal “bottle club” in Tribeca, authorities said.
“When questioned, he told deputy sheriffs that he had consumed alcoholic beverages he bought at the party,” officials said of the boy, who was “visibly intoxicated” and had to be taken to the hospital. New York Presbyterian Center.
It was a wild party even before the sheriffs rushed to the location, Harrison Street, on the corner of Hudson Street, around 11pm on Friday, after witnessing some 40 people in line trying to enter.
More than 123 people were upstairs, “consuming alcohol, smoking marijuana and not wearing masks,” New York City Sheriff Joseph Fucito said in a press release.
Deputies arrested the club’s alleged host, Kurt David, 30, of Roslyn, New York, accusing him of selling drinks to someone under the age of 21 and violating pandemic emergency restrictions against large gatherings.
An accused bartender, two DJs and a party employee accused of selling 3.5-gram packets of marijuana on the spot were also arrested.
The 17-year-old, whose name was not disclosed, escaped arrest, if not punishment: “Deputies remained with the minor until his parents guarded him,” Fucito said. .