Several spring breakers in Myrtle Beach say the case of a spring breaker thought to have been abducted this time last year made them think twice before coming to the Grand Strand.
Kate Ruberry and her friends from Maryland are down for the week, and said their parents warned them about a couple of high-profile missing persons cases.
"They told us about Natalee Holloway and (Brittanee Drexel)," Ruberry said.
Drexel vanished from Ocean Boulevard on April 25, 2009, and police have said in the past they think she was abducted.
"We never like do our own thing. We always go out together. We always have our phones on us. And we're always like in contact with each other," Ruberry said.
As for police, they say Drexel's disappearance will not affect protocol on the boulevard.
"One incident's not going to change the way we police Ocean Boulevard. We've done it the same in the 20 plus years that I've been here," said Cpt. David Knipes with the Myrtle Beach Police Department.
"We have officers. They are visible. They make numerous cases. They try to keep the peace down there. Obviously we ask for voluntary compliance on everybody's part. Don't do anything here that you wouldn't do at your own home," Knipes said.
Knipes said the March spring break crowds are usually the older college-aged students, and he said they don't typically cause too many problems.
He said it's the high school students who flood Myrtle Beach beginning mid-April through June who get the rowdiest.
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