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Police Cite 4 Teens for Underage Drinking

The Northampton Township Police Department cited several teens for underage drinking over the weekend on three separate occasions.

Detailed in a recent police blotter, the reported three separate incidents where four teenagers were cited for underage drinking.

On Sunday, July 22, police observed a male—Thomas Haggerty, 18, of Ivyland—urinating in the parking lot of the Wawa on 750 2nd Street Pk. in Richboro. After talking to Haggerty, police found that he had been consuming alcoholic beverages.

Haggerty was cited for the liquor law violation as well as for Disorderly Conduct for urinating in public.

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A day earlier, while on patrol at 2:44 a.m. on Saturday, July 21, an officer observed two younger-looking individuals, wearing dark clothing, stumbling in the eastbound lane of travel on the 400 block of East Holland Road.

The officer stopped and spoke to the subjects, who admitted they had been drinking at a friends home, police reported.

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Olivia Dreyer, 19, of Perkasie and Edward Feller, 19, of Langhorne (Northampton Township), will be cited for the liquor law violations. Both teens were released into the custody of their parents.

And around 10:40 p.m. on Friday, July 20, officers received a report of a vehicle being operated in a reckless manner in the area of Bustleton Pike and Willow Road. The caller gave the officers a registration plate number for the vehicle. Officers were able to locate the vehicle, which was parked but occupied, in a drive on Willow Road.

While investigating the vehicle and its occupants, police found that one of the passengers was under the legal age for consuming alcohol, and had been drinking.

Police then cited Brad Dunne, 19, of Churchville for underage drinking.

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