Crime & Safety
Tewksbury Restaurant Served Underage Alcohol; 5 Arrested: Cops
The Andover Street restaurant was checked out following a citizen complaint.
TEWKSBURY, MA — A server and four young men who couldn't wait a bit longer for their drinks were arrested in an alleged underage alcohol incident at an Andover Street restaurant.
Police investigated the Chopsticks restaurant following a complaint by a concerned citizen that individuals under 21 were being served alcohol. Officers conducted a compliance check and came upon four young men with alcohol who could not produce identification.
Wo Hui Mei, 55, of Boston was arrested for selling alcohol to a person under 21. The four men, ages 19-20, from Billerica, were all arrested for being a person under 21 possessing alcohol. (Want more Tewksbury news? Of course you do! Subscribe to Tewksbury Patch.)
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Mei did not ask the men for identification, police said.
The case will be sent to the licensing authority (Town of Tewksbury Board of Selectmen) for administrative action.
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Photos of Mei and the four Billerica men arrested courtesy of Tewksbury Police
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