By Ray Lamont
Gloucester Daily Times, Mass.
GLOUCESTER, Mass. — A 20-year-old Gloucester resident has been ordered to apologize to two Gloucester police officers for an incident in May 2016.
Ryan Carter of 15 Hawthorne Road, had his case continued without a finding through April 2019 after he submitted to facts sufficient to warrant a guilty finding on two counts of assault and battery on a police officer and a single count of being a minor in possession of alcoholic beverages.
Carter was also to undergo a mental health evaluation and enter and complete an anger management program, while remaining drug and alcohol-free and subject to random screens, the judge ordered.
The charges stem from an incident in May 2016, when police observed Carter driving with seven passengers in his vehicle and traveling at a high rate of speed down Washington Street.
Police found alcohol in the car, and after each passenger was picked up by a parent, Carter became belligerent with police at the scene and on the way to the police station, kicking two officers in the process, according to the police report.
Charges of failing to stop for a police officer, disorderly conduct and operating without a license were dismissed at the request of the commonwealth.
In the disposition of other cases heard in Gloucester District Court:
Hunter Cooper, 20, of 26 Mansfield St. was fined $150 after he entered a guilty plea to a disorderly conduct charge stemming from his shouting racial and ethnic slurs at a city police officer who had offered to give him a ride him after a well-being check. According to a report from Patrolman Stephen Lamberis, he responded to a call to the Rocky Neck parking lot for the well-being check, and found Cooper smelling of alcohol and slumped in his vehicle. Lamberis then sought to give Cooper a ride home while leaving the car in the lot. But, along the way, Cooper began berating Lamberis, who is black, with racial and ethnic slurs, leading the officer to call for backup. The taunting by Cooper continued as he was transported to the police station.
Christopher R. Morgan, 31, of unit E at 2775 Mesa Verde Drive in Costa Mesa, California, was ordered to surrender his license for 45 days and pay a total of $600 in court fees after he submitted to facts sufficient to warrant a guilty finding on a charge operating under the influence of liquor. Morgan was found responsible on a lights violation, but was deemed not responsible on a charge of failing to stay within marked lanes. The charges stemmed from a June incident in which police observed Morgan driving along Rogers Street and then onto Main Street without his headlights on and while crossing the center line.
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