After a relatively calm New Year's Eve holiday in Forest Lake, police here saw their activity level increase with a weekend filled with fights and drunk drivers. Chief of Police Clark Quiring said on Monday his department intervened at three bar incidents over the weekend and also arrested three motorists for driving while intoxicated.

Two of the incidents were at the Upper Deck Grill and Bar and Players Beach Club, 55 S. Lake St. At 1:04 a.m. Sunday officers were called to a fight between two women. When police arrived, they found one woman on the ground and observed a second woman kicking the victim, Quiring said. A 34-year-old Forest Lake woman was taken to jail on probable cause fifth-degree assault, a gross misdemeanor. The victim's injuries were minor, the chief said. At 12:17 a.m. on Saturday, officers were called to the bar to investigate a fight between two women. A 19-year-old Wyoming woman was ticketed for gross misdemeanor fifth-degree assault. Quiring said officers were told the woman punched an 18-year-old Circle Pines woman. The extent of her injuries were unknown.

 At 12:30 a.m. on Saturday, police were called to Stella's on 97, 7050 Scandia Trail N., where an East Bethel man, 30, reported he had been punched in the mouth by a second man. The man refused medical treatment. No arrests were made, Quiring said.

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