AMHERST — A vehicle being heavily damaged by college-age people outside a North Pleasant Street home early Friday morning led to the arrests of three men, according to Amherst police.
Officers on patrol in the area of North Pleasant and Phillips street responded at 1:43 a.m. to the parking lot behind 382 North Pleasant, a two-family rental and former fraternity house. There, they found a large crowd destroying a Toyota passenger car, likely making it inoperable and beyond repair, police said.
Three men who didn’t leave the location, including one claiming that he was just damaging his own vehicle, were taken into custody.
Tobias J. Ruggio, 19, of Duxbury, and Arthur Vidal, 20, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and being minors in possession of alcohol, police said.
A third man who police say was interfering with officers investigating the incident and refusing to leave, Timothy M. Regan II, 20, of Bedford, was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct, police said.
