Five Busted At Water Park

An early morning fight over a lost cell phone in the parking lot of Great Wolf Lodge in Garfield Township led to four arrests and four citations for minors in possession of alcohol.

Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the resort at just before 2am Saturday after a 21-year-old intoxicated Traverse City man reported to resort staff that he had been assaulted outside.

When deputies arrived, they found a group of young people who had been drinking; some were staying at the resort and some were not; two of them resisted arrest during the investigation, Lt. Chris Oosse says.

Apparently, an argument began over a lost phone and ended when a 21-year-old Traverse City man pushed the victim into a snowbank. Deputies arrested him for assault, and they arrested the victim for a probation violation because he wasn’t supposed to be drinking but had a blood-alcohol level of .175.

An 18-year-old Suttons Bay man and a 20-year-old Rapid City man were arrested for resisting and obstructing, assault, and minor in possession of alcohol; three other teenagers, females from Traverse City and Suttons Bay and a 19-year-old male, were cited for being minors in possession of alcohol.