Crime & Safety

DJ Charged with DWI at School Dance

A disc-jockey was allegedly drunk during a dance at Cinnaminson Middle School.

A disc-jockey was tuned up as he left a middle-school dance, police said. 

The DJ, 32-year-old Mitchell M. Klepac of Williamstown, Gloucester County, was charged Friday with driving while intoxicated, DWI in a school zone and possession of alcoholic beverages on school property. He also was ticketed for several traffic violations, police said. 

Klepac had been disc-jockeying an eighth-grade dance at on Friday night when a teacher approached him to ask for a change in the music, said district Superintendent Sal Illuzzi. The teacher smelled alcohol on Klepac's breath and told an assistant principal, who also smelled booze on the DJ's breath. The administrator then called police, who intercepted Klepac in the parking lot as he left the dance. 

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The DJ was supplied by D.J.'s Available Sound and Light, a Moorestown-based company, with whom the district has worked several times, Illuzzi said. 

"We've never had any problem with them," he said Monday afternoon. "This was the first time this particular person served that role as DJ, and obviously, it will be his last."

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Tina Durbano, owner of D.J.'s Available Sound and Light, was chagrined over the incident. 

She said the company hires disc jockey as subcontractors, and that Klepac had only worked for her company a few times. 

"He will never work here again," she said. "We've been in business for 28 years, and this is the first time something like this has happened. It's not something we would ever allow to happen."

Illuzzi said the incident didnt' put a damper on the middle-school's end-of-the-year dance for the roughly 200 students who attended. 

"The dance itself was a great success for our kids, and at no time were any of them affected by this incident," he said.  

Klepac was processed and released pending a hearing in municipal court. 


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