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Last modified: Monday, June 22, 2009 2:19 AM EDT
Drinking party busted in Mansfield
BY MICHAEL GELBWASSER SUN CHRONICLE STAFF
MANSFIELD - Police continued their crackdown on underage drinking Saturday, taking 13 people into custody - including eight youths - after an early-morning party at an apartment building.
The eight youths, ranging in age from 18 to 20, all were arrested and will be charged with the illegal possession of alcohol, police said Sunday.
The host, Brian Phinney, 21, will be summoned to court on the charge of furnishing liquor to a person under 21.
The party in Phinney's second-floor apartment at 10 Connors Ave., near Oakland Street, was the latest broken up by area police since the death of King Philip Regional High School senior Taylor Meyer last October. Meyer died after attending an underage drinking party at the former Norfolk Airport.
Mansfield police said they responded to 10 Connors Ave. at 12:30 a.m. Saturday after someone reported a loud party there.
Police said officers heard loud noise coming from a second-floor apartment when they arrived. Inside, police reported seeing a "large amount of alcohol and many empty bottles and cans of alcohol. They also found many young adults that all showed various levels of intoxication."
Facing summons to court are seven North Attleboro residents: Hannah Nelson, 19, of 89 Elmwood St.; Meaghan Kenney, 19, of 306 Paine Road; Dylan Morlock, 19, of 280 Kelley Boulevard; Amanda Beaupre, 19, of 35 Munroe Drive; David Butters, 18, of 32 Lincoln Road; Katie Cahill, 20, of 74 Johnson St.; and Ranna Sarkis, 19, of 231 Colonial Road; as well as Jessica Melino, 18, of Cranston, R.I.
Police placed Phinney and four North Attleboro residents, all 21 or older, into protective custody. Only Phinney faces charges.
Officers Brian Thibault, Robert Peirce, Anthony Lattanzio and Joshua Ellender and Sgt. Larry Crosman participated in the investigation. |