RICHMOND, Maine — Police are investigating how a minor ended up in a roadside ditch after a Wednesday night gathering where minors were drinking alcohol.
Richmond Police Chief Scott MacMaster said police Sgt. Adam Garland was called to a home at 8:35 p.m., for a report of a 15-year-old male suffering a medical condition. The teen had been found unresponsive in a ditch along Front Street by a passer-by who returned him to his home.
His back was wet, his nose bloody and there were several scratches on his back. The teen’s mother called police, MacMaster said. The teen was taken to a hospital, where it was determined the teen was hypothermic and had a blood alcohol concentration above 0.25.
Police discovered the teen had been at a Hatch Street gathering where alcohol was being consumed by minors unsupervised by parents. A 17-year-old female was summoned for supplying alcohol to minors and for theft, for allegedly stealing the alcohol from an adult, MacMaster said. A 16-year-old male was summonsed for possession of alcohol. The hospitalized teen also would be summonsed, MacMaster said.
Police continue to investigate.
Alcohol should be kept locked up or in an area not accessible to youths, MacMaster said Thursday.
“This is just a reminder of how easily alcohol can be accessed and that we need to put those safeguards in place,” he said.
Wow what a good idea. Call the police when your son comes home drunk, then they will prosecute him.. probably level a big fine, which parent who origionally called police will have to pay.
Someday people will learn. The police are NOT your friends.
While I agree with you to a point, I am guessing the kid’s mother called for help because her son was bloody and unresponsive. Whether he had injuries beyond alcohol toxicity is something we may never read about, but if they are going to charge the others, then I guess they have to charge this young man. I just hope he makes a full recovery.
Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
Sometimes.
But if he was a UMaine student he would not be charged.
Might depend on which sport team they are on.
Hypothermic and a BAC over.25? The kid was seriously messed up! Any parent would call the cops! The passersby should have!
You’ve come up with some doozys, but this one takes the cake!
I would call an ambulance, not the cops
I was going to say that, but where I live they come in pairs when 911 is called. Often a fire truck shows up first for medical emergencies.
Me too. My children never needed a taxpayer supported employee for their discipline. They got that at home.
Now-a-days people use the phone for everything. Here’s a clue try raising your own kid.
Yea. They should have left him in the ditch.
Right. The police are not your friend. Your real friends are the older pal that
buys beer, cigarettes, & whiskey for you to party with along with others. Your really
good friends are the ones who give you pot, cocaine, or meth. And your REALLY
good friends will get you some black tar heroin and bath salts. WTF ails you?
And after all that, they leave you in a ditch to die.
And their really good friends will help them stash you in a ditch!
I’d rather pay the fine then end up dead in a ditch.
How about call the police when your son comes home drunk and make your son pay for his OWN fines. Someday the son will learn and become a responsible adult :)
he’s only 15 and wouldn’t know how much danger he was in after drinking hard alcohol like it’s juice [presuming that is what he did since his BAC was SO high], and his mother has the sense to RECOGNIZE and get him help before he died. Thank god. And the cops might not be your friends, but they are there for people when they are in danger to simply help them and keep people safe. The parents aren’t in trouble. it specifically said that they charged the 17 year old girl for hosting the party and stealing alcohol, and I commend this Dept. for their logical response.
Some people don’t have to run from the cops. They’re there for us to run to.
Passed out drunk on a school night ??
Not good.
Cry for help.
I hope an ” intervention” can help.
damn if i ever have kids they’d probably raid my fridge…
Alcohol should be kept locked up or in an area not accessible to youths, MacMaster said Thursday.
Kids would never find it in my home because there is none.
Mine either. Unfortunately, I know my kids have had drinks at other homes. Luckily, they have never been hurt.
I hope this young man has been blessed enough to have learned a lesson and that he can share that lesson with his peers.
Boy, this sounds like the good old days……………….. I’m sure nobody on this blog ever did anything like this when they were teenagers…………………..
Back in the old days your (friends) that you were partying with would have left you on your door step and knocked on the door and ran, NOT left you in a ditch. If this kid was unconscious , facedown in 2 inches of water he would have drowned. Some friends this kid has. Kid the only one you can trust to get you home in one piece is yourself.
Well… I didn’t, but then I was a very boring teenager. I skipped the high school party phase and went straight to being the token sober guy in college – the one who the others ask to watch them and make sure they don’t wander into traffic before the LSD wears off. So in this scenario I’d have been trying to make sure Sporto there didn’t end up in a ditch. :)
I had a friend like you. He’s a friend to this day!
So will someone please tell me why UMaine students are not charged when the are found drunk ???? Even in cases where they are rushed to the ER..
Good thing it didn’t happen in Fryeburg – the police would have been the likeliest suspects!
“Police are investigating how a minor ended up in a roadside ditch after a
Wednesday night gathering where minors were drinking alcohol.”
This is probably not going to be the most challenging investigation in history.