Goirish1 thanks, that is good to know. So, interestingly, the charges for my DS finally arrived in the mail from the police department (for some reason they told him they were going to mail the charges to him instead of giving him anything the night of the incident), and the charges do NOT include anything about alcohol! They are charging him with disorderly conduct (from the loud noise) and receipt of stolen property -- my DS's roommates had several street signs in the house that the police noticed and were really pissed about -- pretty sure my DS's attorney can get that charge completely dismissed or substantially reduced, since my DS had absolutely nothing to do with moving the street signs into the house -- though the police said that even if he was not the person(s) responsible for taking the street signs, he should have known they were county property and should have made sure the signs were returned -- my DS realizes that now, and he's really mad at himself -- and his roommates. His roommates are all on the track team at the university, and for some reason the street signs were some sort of cool thing for them. I can see why the police are mad about that, very irresponsible of them, and my DS for not doing anything about it. In any event, it looks like the police department MIGHT be cutting my DS a break on the alcohol related charges (they knew he was a midshipman), though it is possible the alcohol charges might arrive separate -- but it has been over a week, I'd think they would have arrived by now, and my DS's attorney says it would be really unusual for them to send the charges separately - the write up in the charges included a description of the entire incident, with nothing about alcohol other than that the officers checked IDs and told everyone who didn't live in the house to leave.