Local Teens Busted for Drinking on New Year’s
|Police in Hampton, N.H., were busy New Year’s Eve. As the clock ticked down on 2010, two calls, 10 minutes apart, drew officers to a pair of parties. Result: 21 arrested.
Among those charged was Matthew Curran, 18, of Arlington. The prosecutor’s office in Hampton reported his address as 5 Hodge Road. That is the residence of Joseph E. Curran, a member of the Arlington School Committee. The elder Curran has not responded after two requests for comment.
Following a 11:13 p.m. call from a parent who had a child there, police went to 40 Ocean Blvd., according to an account in Seacoastonline, the Web site for a number of area newspapers. Police made a number of trips to the cottage near Hampton Beach State Park and arrested 13 teens on charges of unlawful possession of alcohol, the Web site reported. A number are from the Arlington area.
Taken into custody in addition to Curran were Megan Delande, 18, of Hampton; Laura Maunsell, 18, of Medford; Christopher Wright, 19, of Gloucester; Joshua Brodeur, 18, of Whitinsville; Andrew Crawford, 18, of Medford; Michael Anthony Lespasio, 18, of Lexington; John Raimo, 18, of Medford; Jeff John Devine, 18, of Medford; Stephen Daly, 19, of Saugus; Connor O’Riordan, 18, of Wilmington; Michael Settipani, 18, of Charlestown; and Evan Robert Mahan, no age or hometown available, of Massachusetts.
In the second case, police were called at 11:23 p.m. to 494 Winnacunnet Road. Eight people, all of New Hampshire, were taken into custody after police were had to obtain a search warrant to gain entry.
The prosecutor’s office said Jan. 20 that the accused are to be arraigned at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 2, in Hampton.
– Story courtesy Bob Sprague of YourArlington.com