Police respond to alcohol-fueled incidents in Amherst

Amherst. 04.22.2023

Amherst. 04.22.2023 STAFF PHOTO

Staff Report

Published: 05-07-2024 9:19 AM

AMHERST — Police broke up a large party at a North Amherst apartment complex, with a few hundred college-age people in attendance, as part of a handful of alcohol-fueled incidents late Friday night into Saturday morning.

Officers responded at 10:33 p.m. Friday to Townehouse Apartments, 50 Meadow St., for reports of a number of people gathered in the quad areas consuming alcohol, and others urinating and stripping.

When police got there, they found litter and identified six people responsible for holding the party. Those individuals are being summoned to court on charges of violating the town’s noise and nuisance house bylaws. Those carry fines of up to $300.

Only one person, a 21 year old, was taken into custody on a charge of disorderly conduct, police said.

Though officers warned people who had been urinating, police found everyone there was fully clothed.

At 1:13 a.m. Saturday, at another North Amherst location, a woman reported she was chased from a house party on North Pleasant Street, by a woman wielding a baseball bat and making racial slurs. Police are investigating that incident, though the residents at the home denied having any baseball bat to make threats with.

Then, at 1:46 a.m., police cleared hundreds of people from Nutting Avenue where they showed up looking for a party. At one home, about 30 people were hanging out on the lawn. A resident, who felt threatened, went back into her home until officers calmed the situation.

— SCOTT MERZBACH

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