Wicked Local - Boxford and state police rounded up more than 60 teens following the bust of a large house party Sunday night and Monday morning on Herrick Road. The incident is considered the largest illegal house party Boxford has seen in recent history, according to local police. A sign advertising a 50th birthday party outside of 24 Herrick Road didn’t fool police when they stopped by to follow up on a noise complaint around 11 p.m. “There was no 50th birthday. There was an underage drinking party,” said Boxford Police Chief Gordon Russell. “A good number tried to avoid us by running helter-skelter…running into the woods, hiding behind trees, hiding behind stone walls.” By 8 a.m. Monday, state and local police had picked up and issued summonses to 62 individuals for underage drinking, all between 16 and 20 years of age. Russell said he believes they found all of the individuals that attended the house party. That is the largest we have ever had…in my 39 years here,” said Russell. Russell said the incident required the use of Boxford patrolmen and a lieutenant, state police officers and several troopers, a state police helicopter, and three state police canine units. “The thing that irked me was, number one, that it happened and, number two, that it was such a magnitude that it took away everything else from the entire town,” said Russell.Boxford police are still investigating how the underage group obtained the alcohol. Russell said he does not believe drugs were involved with the party. While no one was injured in the incident, Russell said that the recent rain ensured that most that fled into the wetland-heavy woods got their share of mosquito bites and ticks. “It [the rain] turned this area into a semi-tropical rain forest,” said Russell. Riter said the large group of underage partiers started a mad rush into the woods, tripping over each other and falling in the pool in an attempt to escape. “It was like nothing I’d ever seen before,” said Riter.

60 underage kids were caught drinking and then ran into the woods when the cops showed up? Holy Shit! I’ve never heard of that happening before! Seriously half the time I was reading this I couldn’t tell whether the Boxford police chief was talking about Vietnam or a High School party.  Talk about a drama queen huh?  I mean did he really need to bring in the police dogs and the state helicopters? He’s making it sound like he broke up Woodstock or something. And the cu de grace is his duel claim that nobody was using any drugs and that he caught all 62 people at the party. Hey if that’s true the CIA should send this guy after Osama Bin Laden because that would be a walk in the park compared to this feat.

PS – Who’d these kids think they were dealing with bringing  that “Happy 50th Birthday Frank” sign?  You better leave that JV shit at home when dealing Police Chief Gordon Russell.   He eats that crap for breakfast.