The Brief
- Police said they were overwhelmed by high schoolers, many of whom are from metro Atlanta.
- Zero-tolerance enforcement in full effect, the chief says.
- Panama City Beach has seen 700 arrests and citations related to spring break so far.
The police chief of a spring break hot spot in Florida says metro Atlanta kids are giving them big problems.
Panama City Beach’s police chief is now appealing directly to Georgia parents, with a wave of unsupervised high school spring breakers bringing yearly chaos to Florida’s coast.
“We are inundated with high school spring breakers from the Georgia, Atlanta metro area,” Chief Talamantez said. “We’re tired in Panama City Beach of these kids coming down here thinking they could do anything they want.”…