PANAMA CITY BEACH — Officers have made their first arrests of visitors without identification in possession of alcohol on the beach.
Three men were arrested Tuesday and charged with possessing or consuming alcohol on the beach without identification. The arrests took place on the beachside area of Thomas Drive between 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m.
At about, 12:30 p.m., BCSO officers approached 23-year-old Kenneth Porter. He was allegedly drinking a Budweiser on the beach in the 8600 block of Thomas Drive when an officer asked him for his ID, which he said he did not have, BCSO reported.
An hour later, at about 1:30 p.m., undercover officers on the beachside area of Club La Vela, 8813 Thomas Drive, noticed two men carrying a blue cooler. Officers asked Jordan Siegel, 19, and Reid Conley, 19, both of Illinois, if they had identification. Neither did, BCSO said.
Inside the cooler, the officers found several beers.
Porter was arrested on a charge of consuming alcohol without ID on the beach. Siegel and Conley were both arrested on charges of minor in possession of alcohol and possessing alcohol without ID on the beach, according to court documents.