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Article: COMMUNITY BRIEFING
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 17, 2008
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GLOBE NORTH 3
AMESBURY
21 CAUGHT IN UNDERAGE DRINKING NET - The Police Department
recently undertook a special operation to target underage drinking
in town. According to Police Officer Thomas Hanshaw, the operation
occurred between Christmas and New Year's Day through the use of a
$4,600 grant from the state Executive Office of Public Safety. The
agency awarded the grants to Amesbury and nine other communities
based on the relatively high number of underage alcohol-related
offenses they reported during 2005. Amesbury used its grant to pay
the overtime costs of assigning officers to the special operation.
Working in plain clothes, the officers undertook special patrols
along roadways looking ...