As we noted in our previous post, people arrested in Athens-Clarke County face more severe punishments for underage possession of alcohol than those in surrounding counties. And county police continue to make those arrests, as they did recently when making a pair of arrests.

Athens-Clarke County Police arrested two University of Georgia students for underage possession of alcohol and disorderly conduct.

Officers transported a 20-year-old man and a 21-year-old man to the Clarke County Jail after the officers saw the men fighting on a sidewalk along College Avenue. According to the police report, the 21-year-old man punched the 20-year-old man in the face and began teasing him. Both men smelled as if they had been consuming alcohol, police say.

A day later, in an unrelated incident, a student was arrested for simple assault after he allegedly hurled a cowboy boot at a taxi driver, police say.

According to the police report, a 23-year-old man argued with a taxi driver about the taxi fee. The man said when he tried to pay the driver at his apartment, the driver increased the $5 per person fee they had agreed upon to $10 per person.

The taxi driver told police, the man tossed $10 in his face and went into his apartment.

The man threw a cowboy boot at the driver and went back into his apartment, the police report says.

When police arrived, they found a leather boot in bushes outside the apartment. Officers later discovered a matching boot in the man's apartment, according to the police report.

Three women witnessed the altercation from inside the taxi. The women locked themselves in the running vehicle and prepared to defend themselves with pepper spray, police say.

The women told the police the man was hostile and would not pay the driver.

Officers took him to jail.

Source: Red and Black, "Crime Notebook, Nov. 13 (w/ documents)," Adina Solomon, Nov. 13, 2011