Arrested Halloween revelers will not have to call their friends to pick them up in Nelsonville on Sunday because the Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail Commission decided not to take any misdemeanor offenders.

"We don't house misdemeanor, non-jailable offenses, and we stick to it," said Mike Heavener, Perry County commissioner.

Instead, those arrested will be held in the old Athens County Jail in the Athens County Sheriff's Department on Washington Street. The facility comfortably holds about 60 people. The various Athens police agencies will decide Saturday night what to do if more people are arrested.

Last year, 229 people were arrested on Saturday night.

Heavener said he does not foresee problems - despite the lack of

space - because the event ran smoothly last year.

"We've looked into it and we will help in any way we can," Heavener said. "We are ready to help, we are just waiting on them to tell us what to do."

The East State Street pool locker room is one option the city will not be using for spillovers. Last year the city attempted to use the area for a Sobriety Center. It was closed down because the locker room did not meet state codes as a holding facility.

In order for the city to reopen it, it would have to pay $100,000, Athens Mayor Ric Abel said.

"Hopefully everyone will be good so we won't have to make so many arrests," he said.

Each law enforcement agency in the Athens area has put in for overtime or requested additional help from agencies outside of Athens. The Ohio University Police Department expects five to six university officers from Kent State University and the University of Akron, OUPD Chief Ted Jones said.

The Athens Police Department expects 50 uniformed officers from around the state, plus other non-uniformed officers such as Liquor and Drug Enforcement, APD Chief Richard Mayer said.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol will not bring in extra officers, but it plans on putting some officers on overtime to patrol the state highways and county roads, Sgt. Richard Meadows said.

"Our operations will not change," Meadows said. "But we will have more people on the roads to handle the influx of traffic that comes that weekend."

-Tschanen Niederkohr contributed to this story.