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A room with a view
Residence Life employees of Edith Patch Hall suspected underage drinking in a second-floor room and called police at 12:32 a.m. March 22 when the residents became uncooperative. Officers found five underage students in the room. They all admitted to drinking. Through the doorway, an officer saw an unopened liter of Jack Daniel’s. The resident, Daniel Curtis, 20, denied the officer permission to search the room. The students wouldn’t tell officers where they had been drinking, but the resident assistant said they had recently left a party that had been broken up at the DTAV Complex. Curtis was charged for possession of liquor by a minor. The other students, Mathew Shannon, 20, Orono; Tyler McCaslin, 19, Orono; George Bragdon, 20, Orono, and Christopher Dubois, 19, Orono; were charged with possession of liquor by a minor by consumption.
An untimely declaration
In response to a report of an alcohol offense, officers knocked on the door of a fourth-floor room of Knox Hall and were immediately answered by a female who yelled, “I’m drunk!” at 1:45 a.m. March 21. The female, Megan Aydelott, 18, sat on the floor with four people. Around them were bottles of liquor: Captain Morgan’s, Kahlua, Baileys Irish Creme and Bacardi Lemon. Aydelott was charged with possession of liquor by a minor.
Liquor is quicker
An officer approached a second-floor room of Knox Hall to address a noise complaint and heard several loud voices yelling, “Give her more vodka!” at 1:06 a.m. March 21. The officer was allowed into the room and found resident, Allison Ahern, 20, to be extremely intoxicated. The bottle of vodka in question was actually filled with water. People were trying to trick her into drinking it by convincing her it was vodka. When questioned, she said she’d had three, four or five drinks at Orchard Trails. She was charged with possession of liquor by a minor by consumption.
The scarlet liter
Residence Life staff reported underage drinking and uncooperative residents on the first floor of Knox Hall at 12:39 a.m. March 21. Police found the door of the room open with two males standing in the doorway. Officers looked into the room and saw a table with red cups placed on it in the formation of a well-known drinking game. Inside were three more people. Officers found two open cans of beer near the door, one under the bed, two on a desk and two on the table. Resident Thomas Errico, 19, was charged with furnishing a place for minors to consume. Imre Kormendy, 19, Orono; Nicholas Ceffalo, 18, Orono; Rachel Franklin, 18, Kingston, RI; and Sarah Humphrey, 19, Kingston, RI, were charged with possession of liquor by a minor.
A mysterious apparition
An Estabrooke Hall RA saw a bottle of liquor inside a room of underage residents and called police at 10:13 p.m. March 20. A male answered the door and officers could see a six-pack of beer on the floor inside the room. The officer met the two female residents and looked around the room to find a bottle of Jose Cuervo tequila, a Smirnoff martini mix on the bookshelf and several half-filled bottles of vodka in the closet. Residents Autumn Landry, 19, Orono, and Vivienne Cyr, 19, Orono, stated they didn’t know where the alcohol came from. Both were charged with possession of liquor by a minor.
Floored
Police responded to a report of an intoxicated female in the fourth-floor study lounge of Hart Hall at 3:10 a.m. March 22. A resident saw her lying on the floor when she left her room to use the bathroom. Officers identified her as Sara Breau, 19, Orono, and issued her a summons for possession of liquor by a minor. An ambulance transported her to the hospital.
Out of state, out of mind
Police responded to the third floor of Knox Hall to report of an intoxicated female in need of medical attention at 3:10 a.m. March 21. Because of her level of intoxication, officers had a difficult time identifying her. Eventually they learned that she was 18 years old and a student at an out-of-state university. Officers located the friend she was staying with and transported her to the hospital for treatment.
Where there’s smoking.
An officer responded to the report of a trashcan on fire outside Hauck Auditorium near the bus stop at 3 p.m. March 20. He found a cigarette receptacle on fire and put it out with a fire extinguisher. Orono Fire responded and determined the fire was caused by a discarded cigarette.
A commons dilemma
Police were called to Hilltop Commons at 7:23 p.m. March 23 to confront a man who had previously received a letter from the Dean of Students Office stating he wasn’t allowed in campus residence halls or dining halls. The man, Bradley Yates, 20, Nobleboro, was located eating on a countertop in the dining hall and was charged for criminal trespass.
Duffle, shuffled
A student using the Student Recreation and Fitness Center had his duffle bag stolen from the men’s locker room at 7:44 p.m. March 21. Inside the bag was his wallet with ID cards, $18 in cash and a Sugarloaf ski pass. The bag also contained a Nokia 5263 phone, a set of keys, an American Eagle spring jacket, jeans, two white shirts, a blue towel and tan swim shorts. Total estimated value is $373. The case is under investigation.
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