Mom thanks Fla. cops for arresting daughter on spring break: It ‘scared the HELL out of her’

A Florida sheriff’s office has proudly published a letter online from a mother who thanked deputies for arresting her underage drinking daughter on spring break and teaching her a valuable lesson.

The Walton County Sheriff’s Office in Florida received a letter from the mother after her 15-year-old daughter was arrested on the beach along with several other people. Sheriff Michael A. Adkinson Jr. posted the letter on Facebook Thursday.

“Yesterday, my daughter was one of the thousands of spoiled spring breakers ’living it up’ on the beach. She got arrested for underage drinking,” the mother wrote. “A stupid move that I warned her about before she left, but I’m just her mother, so ’in one ear and out the other.’”

The mother, who said she was writing from hundreds of miles away, said she was reassured after overhearing on the phone with her daughter that the deputies were nothing but cordial with the spring breakers.

“The reason that I am sending this is that every officer that I talked to or that I could hear in the back ground talking to her was so nice! Firm, but nice,” she wrote. “In this day, ’cops’ are getting a bad rap. So, I wanted to say ’thank you.’

“The arrest scared the HELL out of her and I’m hoping she learned her lesson,” she continued. “I know you all have to deal with this on a daily basis, which must be completely annoying and I’m very sorry my daughter added to your workload yesterday. They say you always have one child that makes you go grey early and she is mine! Thank you for saving me a few more grey hairs last night.”

The Walton County Sheriff’s Office told Inside Edition that the girl gave them a fake ID and that they have a zero tolerance policy for underage drinking.

“We like to send that message out clearly,” said Corey Dobridnia, the public information officer for the department. “We are not trying to ruin kids’ lives but protect them from hurting themselves. We treat them fairly like we would treat anyone else. It’s nice to hear from a parent and hear their support.”