3/22
12:05 a.m. Rickard’s ruckus role
St. George, Maine native Megan Rickard, 18, was summonsed for illegal possession of alcohol by a minor after she was found to be intoxicated. The non-student was hitting her friends and making a lot of noise outside of the Bryand Global Sciences Center on campus, resulting in a disturbance call being sent to the University of Maine Police Department. Officers arrived to find Rickard with two of her friends who were trying to get her to go home. Rickard’s eyes were bloodshot, and she was acting very emotional. After interviewing each of the young women, Rickard was summonsed as well as given warnings for disorderly conduct and trespassing, the latter being in effect until May 18.
1:55 a.m. “How are we gonna smoke all this?”
An R.A. in Oxford Hall decided to call the police after noticing loud noise and an odor of marijuana coming from one of the rooms on the second floor. Once officers arrived, they started walking down the hall in an effort to pinpoint the source of the odor. Officers heard voices coming from one of the rooms, with a distinct line: “How are we gonna smoke all this?” Running with this clue, the police knocked on the door of the room. A female answered the door. The officer asked the male room resident to turn over the marijuana that he had. The student said that he couldn’t remember where he put it and wouldn’t let the officers into the room to search. There were a total of seven people in the room, three of whom were non-students and were given criminal trespass warnings. All seven were referred to Judicial Affairs.
3/23
12:19 a.m. First there were two…
An R.A. in Gannett Hall called UMPD after detecting a very strong odor of marijuana on the second floor. Officers arrived shortly thereafter and could smell marijuana being burned in one of the rooms. They knocked on the door and the residents of the room, Nicholas Zeleny, 19, and Elijah Silverman, 18, answered. There was a thick haze within the room as well as a strong odor of marijuana. The two residents were asked to turn over the marijuana and complied, handing over a jar with marijuana in it as well as a pipe with residue in the bowl. Zeleny was given a summons for sale and use of drug paraphernalia and Silverman was summonsed for possession of a usable amount of marijuana. Both were also referred to Judicial Affairs.
1:44 a.m. …and then there was one
Officers were dispatched to Cumberland Hall after they received a report of a strong smell of marijuana on the second floor. Officers found the odor to be coming from the room of student Cameron Nadeau, 19. The officers knocked on the door and asked Nadeau to turn over his marijuana. Nadeau complied, and was given a summons for possession of a usable amount of marijuana.
2:18 a.m. ’scroggin rager
UMPD responded to a report of a loud party on the fourth floor of Androscoggin Hall. The dispatched officer knocked on the door from which the noise was emanating. After someone answered the door, the officer could see a large group of people in the room and could smell a strong odor of alcohol. The group consisted of 10-12 people, with a beer pong table set up in the middle of the room. The party was cleared out with everyone receiving disorderly conduct warnings and the two room residents being referred to Judicial Affairs.
10:00 p.m. Dodgy doper
UMPD responded to a report of an odor of marijuana on the fourth floor of Knox Hall and searched the corridor to locate the source of the smell. Eventually they were able to narrow it down to a single room. After knocking on the door, a resident answered with a strong haze and odor of marijuana escaping the confines of the room. After realizing just who it was who was standing in the doorway, the resident quickly closed the door, refusing to cooperate. The officers left, with a referral to Judicial Affairs later being given to the room resident.