After police in Dewey Beach, Delaware, raided a party last week, a Bethesda soccer club coach was arrested and several recent graduates of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda were cited for underage drinking. Officers investigated a loud party last week after an officer smelled marijuana, and 25-year-old soccer coach Nino Marcantonio, told officers that everything was under control.

Detective Cliff Dempsey says Marcantonio, who was leasing the house, denied that anyone was using alcohol, then two people jumped from the balcony.

Marcantonio was charged with 18 counts of endangering the welfare of a child and one count each of maintaining a dwelling for the use of illegal drugs, providing alcohol to an underage person and disorderly use of a dwelling.

Police cited 35 more people at the party - including 18 who were under the age of 18.

Marcantonio's attorney says his client traveled to the beach with ten students and didn't supply alcohol or drugs to minors. He says Marcantonio - quote - "had the misfortune of being the only adult in the area."

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Information from: The Washington Post,