BRUNSWICK
Fifteen Brunswick High School students were issued summonses related to underaged drinking after police broke up a weekend party.
Satchel B. Toole, 18, of 46 Union St., was charged with furnishing a place for minors to consume liquor.
Cormick Gaughran and Angelo Gerardi, both 18, were charged with illegal possession of alcohol. The other 12 students also were charged with illegal possession of alcohol, but were not identified because of their ages.
An anonymous tip received on the Cumberland County Sheriff ’s Department’s “Communities Against Substance Abuse” hotline at 11:21 p.m. Saturday alerted local police to the presence of the party. The report described an underaged party being held on property near Pleasant and Union streets, according to Brunswick Deputy Chief Marc Hagan.
Officers Robert Lane Jr. and Matthew Swan, as well as Detective Greg Mears, answered the call and started walking through the neighborhood, listening for the sound of revelry. They found the students in a barn belonging to Toole’s family.
Toole and Gaughran are members of the Brunswick High School soccer team. Neither acting Principal Donna Borowick nor Athletic Director Jeff Ramich were available for comment Monday. Whether the two players would be suspended from the team, which will enter the Eastern Maine Class A playoffs on Oct. 26, has yet to be announced.
However, according to the drugs and alcohol policy as defined in the school’s student handbook, “a student who violates the chemical use and abuse policy while not participating in an athletic or non-athletic activity shall have those violation(s) count when applying for athletic and/or non-athletic extra-curricular eligibility.”
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