FRANKLIN SQUARE, N.Y., June 27 (UPI) -- The bus driver hired to drive Long Island, N.Y., students to the prom was arrested after police found open beer cans and liquor bottles on the bus.
Thomas V. Brady, 58, was charged with prohibited sale of alcoholic beverages to minors, Newsday reported. He was driving 55 passengers to the Mepham High School prom.
The newspaper said Nassau County police and the county's Taxi and Limousine Commission were looking for violations involving limos or other charter services carrying students to proms when Brady pulled up at Sand Castle Caterers in Franklin Square, N.Y.
The arrest was part of an effort to crack down on limousine services that allow minors to drink alcohol or take drugs during prom season, the newspaper said.
