EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine – Three teenagers were summonsed and an adult arrested after police broke up an alleged underage drinking party of a half-dozen young adults and teens at an Eastern Avenue house late Friday.
Cody Levasseur, 22, of 10 Eastern Ave., was arrested and charged with furnishing a place for minors to consume alcohol, Officer Kevin Giberson said.
Eric Theriault, 19, and Jonathan Sirois, 20, both of East Millinocket, were issued summonses for possession of alcohol by consumption. A 16-year-old juvenile, a girl, was also issued a summons on that charge.
An anonymous tip alerted police to a possible party at the residence at about 11:30 p.m. Friday. When Officers Jay Hallett and David Hersey arrived, they found the party in progress and issued the summonses, Giberson said.
The officers also confiscated a small amount of alcohol.
The suspects are due in Millinocket District Court on Jan. 9. Levasseur posted a personal recognizance bond, Giberson said.
East Mills Police Department is going all out lately. The pot bust now the underage drinkers. Get the dopers officers. Thats where the real problem is and I have seen it since I have been living here. You havent pinched them(6 yrs Ive seen it. Reported it along with house fire suspects but you dont go after them. These busts that you have made dont touch the iceberg. When is the last time you were into this paper for an actual hard drug bust? (Coke,Acid,Bath, ect
give it some time and let the new chief get some stuff done. He’s down a couple officers and still manages. At least he is doing something. Too bad these ones hadn’t been busted one of the many many times in the past when they were in high school. Oh and next time check the closets when you bust up a party officer. ;-) might have found another girl or two.
Acid? What’s that?
Let kids be kids.
SURE LET THEM DRINK TILL THEY GET ON THE ROAD
Caps lock button?
Or are found in the ditch unconscious.
On a school night.
No thanks.
Alcohol : Gateway drug.
Censorship and prohibition are the answers to all of life’s problems! If it is illegal, no one will even think of trying it!
let kids be kids, are you serious. If someone were buying my kids alcohol or my kids were partying, I would say good I’m glad they got caught. To many kids are going down this road and it is starting younger then ever. I say good job East Mill PD, it is time all of the drugs and alcohol are clamped down on.
Let kids be kids?? It is ILLEGAL for anyone, under the age of 21, to be drinking alcohol! And it is also illegal for someone to be providing a place for minors to consume alcohol. Kids don’t know their limit when drinking. What would you say if a kid died from alcohol poisoning? Let kids be kids??
I just wish that the sheriff’s dept in Washington County and the state police would take seriously when someone contacts them with a tip of an underage drinking party!
Get real you act like most 19 and 20 year olds don’t drink get with the program.
YOU get real. Do you think just 19 and 20 year olds kids drink? Kids as young as 12 are drinking now. Most of it is peer pressure. And most of them don’t know when to stop!! There are too many “older people” (21-25) drinking with the minors now…….and buying it for them.
Here’s something for your “let kids be kids” mentality!
http://bangor-launch.newspackstaging.com/2012/11/09/news/augusta/richmond-police-investigating-after-teen-found-injured-unresponsive-in-a-ditch/?ref=polbeat
wow they are trying really hard these days…but the thing is with this “party” is it was a handful of people sitting around being quiet, not a rager that was disturbing the public as it seems. what ever happened to kids being kids and doing it in a responsible manner, they werent out riding around drinking.
NOT YET BUT WILL BE SHORTLY
they were breaking the law. It is that mind set that I don’t understand in this community. Underage drinking is illegal as is providing a place for minors to drink and also providing them alcohol. It is not ok, it is not kids being kids what it is is illegal.
GREAT JOB MAINE KIDS
What’s with the capital letters? Are you telegraphing from early 1865? If so, please tell President Lincoln he should probably take a miss on Our American Cousin.
Sorry, just venting.
Well the law is the law even if you do not agree with it.
Not disagreeing with the law, sir, I understand. This article just sounds a lot worse than what happened.
If you were drinking and the cops caught you it was a bust. The article states that they got alcohol. Get over it if it’s illegal it’s illegal. I would suggest if you don’t like your name in print then don’t commit crimes.
I just don’t see why it warranted an actual article.
And thanks, that’s a good suggestion.
Should be pretty easy to prove if you were or not did you do a blood or breath test? That should indicate whether you were or were not drinking. You, being underage, aren’t allowed to drink at all no matter if you were or were not being quiet and visiting with friends or at a big blow out party.
The paper dose not get most things right I agreed . My advice to you is do not talk to much get a decent plea and pay the find move on learn a lesson . You can not win . We all made mistakes . Some get caught some do not .
then why don’t the police enforce all law not pick an chose ?
Politics .
They don’t have time.
OK do away with laws that they will not enforce
Was alcohol involved with people under 21? That’s the question…
just celebrating Mike’s win in the election, after all it is his home town…..
Should be a law against stool pigeons, the stooly’s should be arrested. And, we are supposed to be in a free country.
So , if the teenage/young adult drinking went unnoticed, and in the paper instead we read YET ANOTHER, YET ANOTHER YET ANOTHER YET ANOTHER, YET ANOTHER,YET ANOTHER,YET ANOTHER, YET ANOTHER, story of 2 or 3 Maine young people killed when they were ejected from a vehicle that smashed into a tree after leaving a party in East Millinocket, speeding and alcohol involved, ….you would be happy there was no stool pigeons.
That’s pretty hypothetical, there, boss. You may want to familiarize yourself with the old saying, “Don’t borrow trouble.”
Oh, yes you may play the projecting game, project this, project that, but, people need to mind their own business, life, and growing up and learning to be an adult, is not always a set, set of rules, but being a stool pigeon is a sickness, and very much not good for society as a whole, minding your own business should be enough.
Stool Pigeon= Someone who is jealous because they weren’t invited.
O dont get me wrong. I side with Darwinism and could give a frog’s fat rear end when drunks of any age get killed driving. The concern is stopping the innocent people they may kill.
You seem pretty quick to judge. Doesn’t say here that any of these kids were drinking and driving, and you’ve no right to assume they were going to. Besides, your point is pretty unrealistic. I absolutely agree that drinking and driving is intolerable, but you’re really over exaggerating that scenario…
Wow…THIs is news?!??!?!!-jg
Is s this what these towns are coming to? A underage drinking party should make headlines in the Bangor Daily News? I know for a fact I have seen officer Giberson at a party in high school and i know for a fact he has drank a beer or two underage. Goes for the rest of you cops. Do you want me to start listing names? Did you guys forget where you come from? And how pathetic is it the the BDN has nothing else to print? I may just stop reading the paper all together. I can’t take it anymore. You cops make me sick.
Exactly, most of the guys I went to school with that became cops were the ones that did everything they weren’t supposed to.
You know, people DO change. Just because they did this in high school doesn’t mean they do it now. Even so, their job is to uphold the law. And breaking up underage parties and charging the people with a crime is their JOB! And as for the BDN reporting this story, they’re doing THEIR job…..and showing that the cops ARE doing theirs! You don’t like it?? Don’t read it…..
What??? How old are you? Where did you come from? I think it is best you stop reading the paper!! Look at the world nowadays, it is pretty bad, it is not like it used to be. Where do you live and we will make sure that the cops never bother you or respond to anything you ever need for you or your family if they make you that sick.
I’m sorry to affend you mother and it is against the law. Underage drinking parties are against the law. And it’s not a healthy practice and drinking isn’t something a young adult should be experimenting with. But it happens. We have all done it. Every cop I know from both East and Millinocket have done it. Ok so they had to break up a party. Take the kids home to there parents and warn them that if this happens again I’m going to have no choice but to arrest your son or daughter. Just common sense really. But a write up in the paper? Seriously? We never here about this in the Bangor area in the paper because the police have a lot more important things going on. Like murders and bath salts. Real police work. Not high school drinking parties. And I have needed the police few times and they can never seem to help me. Serve and protect? Isn’t that the motto? It just sickins me to see this petty stuff in the paper likes its a huge deal when there is horrible things going on all over the world. Again, so to affend.
I also understand they get calls and have to respond. Underage drinking party? Happens all the time. In every town. What if something actually bad happened in East Millinocket? Is this police work worthy of an article in the BDN? Seriously? I just went through the hurricane in NYC. People are dying down here. I work down in NY and I see horrible things everyday. You wouldn’t believe the awful things that go on in big cities. And we up in the woods are worried about a underage drinking party? And then the police are heros for breaking it up? Please someone explain to me what this world is coming to?
We are not in a city, and we have people all over the country helping with huricane sandy, EVEN US FROM EAST MILLINOCKET,!!! of course NY or other big city areas are not going to put underage drinking in newspaper, but I KNOW FOR A FACT, NY police officers have to deal with this, not just a small town and they don’t put it in the paper. Maybe you need to lash out at the reporter who thinks this is really big news!!!! NOT THE POLICE OFFICERS!!
I am upset with the paper as well as the police. These young adults having there names thrown around for petty crimes. Shame on you BDN. What upsets me about all of this is they look for petty stuff like this. A pound of pot? I read the other article, should that be head line news as well? Someone called it into the paper! Had to have been the police department! Making a mountain out of a mole hill. Truth is these cops have nothing better to do. So these petty crimes turn into a bigger deal then they have to. I see the police in Millinocket and East millinocket parked outside of local gas stations for hours drinking coffee. That’s how I want to spend my tax dollars. Were these kids making a lot of noise and disturbing the neighbors? No. The cops are looking for trouble. Besides a cat in a tree or an old lady speeding, East Millinocket has very low crime or none. And the kids are the ones who end up paying for this barney fife type law enforcement.
Cops don’t make laws-they enforce them. They didn’t look for this party, someone called it in as a complaint. What are they supposed to do?
Those cops should get medals for some Dudley Do-Right quality sleuthing, busting 4 kids with a 12 pack in a town of 5200. The kids were probably their own cousins from “that” side of the family.
Call 60 Minutes, get this on the air nationally.
THEY ARE NOT KIDS!!!!
“… in a town of 5200.”
I realize a lot of people in the area got weirdly paranoid about the 2010 Census, but I hardly think that many people in East lied about how many people live in their household.
You want for the kids to be out on the street or would you rather have them at someone’s home ? Unless they are causing trouble, I don’t see the need. Someone apparently was jealous that they were left out and reported them. I say leave them alone if they are at someones house and off the street and not bothering anyone. It could always be worse and they could be doing hard drugs and then there is no coming down. Kids need some space before becoming an adult.
I agree the law is the law. It should also be against the law to send 18-20 year old men and women to war.One of the guys is 19 and another is 20,if you are old enough to die for your country you should be allowed to have a drink. Don’t forget that war is hazardous to your health too.
Have too agree with you ……………………………. I grew up when the legal age was 18.
Of course, that was a time when we were taught that we were responsible for our own actions, also people minded their own business.
Sadly it would seem that those days are gone …………………………………
How many kids get caught for underage drinking on the average weekend in the State of Maine? Why do these 4 kids get a Bangor Daily story rather than being listed in court news like all the others? hmmmmmm
Exactly.
That doesn’t make much sense to me at all.
No reason to single these kids out. What a joke.
Kids? 22, 20, and 19 are not kids. They are young adults and allowed to make their own choices. Sometimes there are consequences with the choices we make.
Well… er… allowed to make some of their own choices, anyway.
Plainly you’ve never had to answer to an editor with column inches (or whatever the equivalent is here in the digital future – perhaps as the technology advances, they’ll find something else to be obsessed with) to fill. :)
Nick was having a slow news day…..
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So the police should ignore phone calls with tips of criminal activity??? Brilliant!!
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They were not wrong in this case.
You do realize that police can not be everywhere all the time. They often rely on citizens reporting illegal activity.
So according to you, if we see a law being broken we should not report it.
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They should check out the facts before they believe one of their so called credible witnesses.
So wouldn’t checking out the party or the location be considered “checking out the facts”? How else are they suppose to do it?
What would Bill Brennan have done…hmmm? I’ll tell you what he did, he dragged us home to our parents and got in thier faces and confronted them! I was more scared of what dad was gonna do than going to jail!!!! I agree with Kevin breaking up the party, what concerns me is the 16 year old girl drinking with 19/20/22 yr olds….not good! Time for them to go after the opiate dealers!
Bill Brennan….hmmmm? I think he would be very upset to know that this town has gone down the wrong road. Back in the day you could take the drinking person home and have mom & dad take care of it or give the drinking person a ride home and sleep it off…. but not now, MOM & DAD don’t take care of it at home, NOT MY CHILD, those police officers are being mean to my baby…
Bill Brennan would have done the same thing these police officers have done because we live in a different world now!!
Just look at the schools.. You can’t even tell a child you need to go to the principal’s office and the parents are right up at the school saying you are picking on my child and they get away with whatever it was.
Yes times have changed that’s for sure, so sad to see what has happened to the town I grew up in and loved. Our teachers had just as much power to discipline as our parents. My 4th grade teacher held a boy out the 2nd story window by his ankles because he wouldn’t stop disrupting class….good times!!
East Millinocket is clearly cleaning up dodge
Were these “kids” breaking the law? Yes. Is it a stupid law? Yes.
Did you know that if a 19yr old soldier comes home from Afghanistan he/she is not allowed to drink in this country they have been risking their lives for? There are some exeptions but overall, they would be breaking the law.
There are two classes of adults in this country; the ones who are mature enough to vote in an election, die for their country, be tried as an adult in criminal court and the ones who are old enough to drink.
That there was a sixteen yr old at this party is troubling, but it does not state in the story what her relationship is to any of the others who were there. I will have to withhold judgement regarding her presence there. FYI, I drank when I was sixteen, so did everyone I knew, across all socio-economic strata. Almost all of us turned out just fine. Those who didn’t had other problems besides “underage” drinking.
We really need to get our heads out of our Puritanical a**es and put an end to laws that only benefit the legal coffers. BTW, when this law was first passed most states did not want to implement it but were blackmailed by the federal government which said it would withhold hwy funds if the law wasn’t implemented. If it was such a good law, why did the government have to resort to blackmail to get it passed?
You drank when you were 16-are you proud of that fact?
Neither proud or not proud; simply part of my youth. I do not feel that I was damaged by that behavior in any way.
I guess we can all agree that underage drinking is not to be condoned. However wrong these “kids” were, this was not a high school party but a small group of young adults visiting with a friend they hadn’t seen in a while. The officers did NOT enter the house but stood outside and yelled out names of people they were told were in the house. The alcohol confiscated was NOT in the house but in a cup in the hands of someone who had not entered the house. The officers were “alerted to a possible party” not a raging house party. Wonderful use of tax dollars at work!
To prevent this the “22” year old should of made the decision to not have the 16 year old enter his home. He could of said “sorry Eric but your girlfriend was in 6th grade when I graduated so I don’t think it is a good idea for me to party with her!” He is an adult. NOT A KID anymore!! Maybe the cops are trying to set an example for upcoming “kids” to make better decisions. Everyone needs to stop acting like these boys are victims.
Oh for heaven’s sake get over it. If you called in a complaint to police however serious or minor, how would you feel if the police didn’t respond because someone else has an oppinion of the way a law should be enforced? How would that make you feel about your tax dollars then? The legislature makes the law, the police are employed to enforce them. Seems to me your beef should be with your local congressmen to try and get him to lobby to change the law. Now it certainly doesn’t seem like the crime of the century and yes, many many people have drink under age, however all the individuals here knew full well the consequences of their actions if they got caught. They made a choice to take a chance, and unfortunately for them, they were caught. As for their names being in the paper, it is not the choice of the police what gets reported. Freedom of the press is allowed by the constitution, and if the people involved are adults, and the paper requests it, their names get in the paper. They put themselves in this situation. No I don’t like to see young people get in trouble but it was a bad choice that got them there. That’s the trouble with the times we live in. Too many kids are not taught by their parents fear of consequences and respect.
I think we are all forgetting that these “boys” that were caught all have been continuously caught doing this same thing over and over. Unfortunately for them the system failed them when they were younger. I agree with the police department in this matter. They DID break the law. There was a 16 year old involved with older boys and alcohol. That is enough for me! Sorry if the boys feelings are hurt that it made the paper and people are seeing the truth. If something like this keeps my neighbors daughter or grandkids from these type of boys that haven’t grown up yet and think it is ok to be with 16 year olds then thank you East Mill PD!
It is unfortunate that the article didn’t read who the 22 year old belongs too. Might answer some questions to previous articles involving our area!
You need a better hobby.
The police pick an chose what laws they want to enforce . Like you can cause a motorcycle accident say 40 ,000 is the total cost an that includes medical an you are in bed for 3 months an co charges filed . Now you get cough with out you seat belt on an the charge you now something is wrong here
Can you show proof these boys have been caught over and over? If you can’t you really shouldn’t make statements like this.
So I assume you were there with the “boys” and watched them consume alcohol with a 16 year old, one who had not entered the house yet and was not with the ones inside. Why would you even care who the 22 year old belongs to?? Seriously? Two of those boys were NOT with the 16 year old and were with others their own age. People don’t know the story and jump to conclusions. It’s no wonder that town is so screwed up.
No’ stool pigeons’ on a Richmond underage drinking party, the result? a 15 year old nearly died.
http://bangor-launch.newspackstaging.com/2012/11/09/news/augusta/richmond-police-investigating-after-teen-found-injured-unresponsive-in-a-ditch/?ref=polbeat
wow.
Someone else please flag this incredibly ignorant post!
Sorry, but it is true. It is harder to get a job at Target,Walmart or Home Depot than to get into Harvard University. For one, Walmart,Home Depot now have strict criminal and drug background checks. You can not even get a job cleaning the bathrooms if a criminal and or drug background check comes back with one hit.
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2012/08/31/target-is-hiring-the-inside-scoop-on-getting-a-job/
Now you’re just being nasty. Those boys don’t deserve to be treated like they committed a felony. Enough is enough…
Why is everyone having a hard time with this? I am confused? This happens all the time, every town, every city, every state, everywhere!! If there is a complaint, officers go to the complaint… if they see alcohol with underage drinking, then OH WELL, you broke the law. Can anyone tell me why some people are angry with this? If my underage child was drinking and broke the law, then call the police by all means!! I am not a parent that says ” MY CHILD NEVER DOES ANYTHING WRONG”. You want things they were back in the day, WELL IT IS NOT… they didn’t have all these drugs “bath salts, methadone clinics, etc., all over the place for all the drug addicts back then, so when a police officer goes to any situation nowadays….you don’t know. Big deal, you drank when you were in high school, or a lawyer drank when in high school, or a state trooper drank when in high school, or a teacher drank when in high school, or YOU drank when you were in high school….you just did not get caught by a police officer, these underage kids got caught and the adults were with them … SORRY AGAINST THE LAW. WHAT THE HECK IS THE PROBLEM HERE.. IT IS COMMENTS LIKE ALL THESE NEGATIVE ONES THAT MAKES THIS WORLD GETTING WORSE AND WORSE, JUST LET THEM DO THEIR JOB FOR HEAVEN SAKES, GET OVER IT!!
The underage drinking isn’t the point; we all know it’s illegal…this bullying is the point. It never should have gone this far and gotten into the newspaper. That’s not news, it’s just something for the curious who thrive on gossip and the reporters who need a gossip rag article. None of you know the facts, yet here you all stand and judge a 19, 20, and 21 year old and tell them they will never get jobs scrubbing toilets. Again, for what?? Rape? Drugs? Murder? Might as well be with the way people are talking. That’s just sad. And we wonder why bullying is such a problem. Just read through the comments and see for yourself. Those boys weren’t being hateful to you.
Stupid law.
Holier than thou adults enforcing a prohibition most of them broke themselves, whether the legal age was 21 or 18. Respect for the law is diminished when hypocrisy and fundamental injustice is clearly evident in the law.
parents seem to be forgetting what it was like to be a teenager!
they will experiment with stuff, just a part of growing up
Oh come on, that is rediculous. I am done!
So let me make sure I understand this…..you have to be 21 to drink ETOH, but you can vote at 18, you are considered a legal adult at 18 and god knows you can go off and fight and die for this country at 18…..but you can’t drink until you’re 21….that makes PERFECT sense.
Aw gee, somebody who didn’t get invited went and told. LOL