(AP) -- CATSKILL, N.Y. (AP) - An upstate New York county legislator has been accused of breaking a law he helped create that prohibits minors from drinking on private property.
Police say Keith Valentine has been arrested on charges of unlawfully dealing with a child and violating county law.
Police say the Republican leader of the Greene County Legislature and his wife Cynthia served alcohol to minors at a July 4th party.
Police say the mother of an 18-year-old who drank at the party filed a complaint against Valentine.
Valentine voted in favor of a local law in 2007 that makes it a violation for someone to allow a party in their home where alcohol is served to someone under the age of 21.
Valentine did not answer calls to his home or office.
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