Hanover Police arrested Sarah LeSure '97 last Tuesday for allegedly giving a false name to law enforcement officials during an earlier encounter with the police.
According to Officer Darryl Zampieri, Hanover Police took LeSure into protective custody on Monday, April 10 at 2 a.m. after she was allegedly found walking intoxicated on Tuck Drive.
Zampieri said LeSure falsely identified herself when Officer John Kapusta questioned her after the incident.
Police realized later that morning around 10:30 that LeSure had given them a false name and arrested her for making a "false report to law enforcement," Zampieri said.
Zampieri would not disclose the name LeSure allegedly gave police, but he said it was the name of another Dartmouth student.
Jackie Schutt '96 said LeSure gave her name to both Safety and Security and the Hanover Police the morning LeSure was picked up.
"It really puzzles me why she used my name," Schutt said. "Maybe because I had gotten in trouble with the police before, and we are both brunettes."
According to Schutt, she and LeSure are acquaintances and sorority sisters.
Schutt said she was surprised police believed LeSure's statement.
"I was ... shocked that they could make themselves so ridiculous," Schutt said in an electronic-mail message. "And the more I thought about their stupidity, the more I blamed them rather than Sarah LeSure."
Zampieri said, "It is not very frequent that this sort of thing happens at Dartmouth. However, even though it doesn't happen everyday, I am sure students have given the police false names before."
LeSure, who is scheduled to appear in Hanover District Court on April 26 at 8:30 a.m., is charged withmaking a "false report to law enforcement," a Class B misdemeanor. Class B misdemeanors are punishable by a maximum fine of $2000.
