4 arrested during Purdue Grand Prix weekend

College parents: Breathe a sigh of relief.

West Lafayette Police Department made just four arrests during Grand Prix weekend at Purdue University, according to statistics released Sunday.

Of 11 reported incidents of public intoxication, two arrests were made. WLPD Lt. David VanVactor said that's typically a last resort for those who are too intoxicated to take care of themselves or don't have someone to do it for them.

"Our only recourse at that point is to incarcerate them for public intoxication," VanVactor said.

Additionally, an arrest was made related to drug possession and another related to an outstanding warrant.

Police also responded to nine noise complaints, issuing five warnings and no citations, and 49 property owners called to report cars parked without permission on private property.

Indiana Excise Police saw a similarly low amount of criminal activity, according to numbers provided Monday by Public Information Officer Brandon Thomas.

Excise police issued seven tickets to minors and five tickets to adults Saturday and Sunday, representing less than a quarter of the total citations issued during Grand Prix last year, according to a police news release from 2014.

To compare, excise police arrested 83 minors, two juveniles and 34 adults on 171 charges Thursday, Friday and Saturday during Indiana University's Little 500 weekend, Thomas said in an email.

That's down from a record 235 arrests made during the event last year, according to a police news release.

VanVactor said this year's relatively tame Grand Prix weekend could be attributed, in part, to the weather and a variety of events going on around campus.

Last week, 213 vehicles passed through a campus sobriety checkpoint, which yielded no arrests, according to a university news release.

Steven Porter, sporter@jconline.com, contributed to this story.