FINN'S PUB owner Kevin Hayhurst is facing criminal charges and his bar is in hot water with the city License Commission due to a May 4 incident in which Hayhurst allegedly punched and kicked a UMass Lowell student during the UMass Lowell Senior Pub Crawl.
The incident at Finns was just the first of several on the night of the crawl where several hundred students took part.
At least a dozen police officers responded to Finns at 7:15 p.m. after dispatchers got a report that someone tried to tear a jukebox off the wall.
Several dozen students, including a young man with an ice pack on his eye, talked to police outside Finns as the incident was calmed.
One girl in a pub crawl T-shirt drew the ire of Police Sgt. Mickey O'Keefe, an erstwhile movie star, because she refused to move along as police tried to restore order. The girl, who was not arrested, ignored O'Keefe's shouts and said she was smoking a cigarette when the veteran sergeant told her to move along.
Within 45 minutes, police were also called to Garcia Brogans on Middlesex Street when students taking part in the pub crawl allegedly caused a disturbance there too. And within minutes of that call police were also called to Crown on Middlesex Street for a report of another disturbance caused by intoxicated students.
Police ended up pulling several patrols cars off their regular patrol routes and dedicating them to monitoring the students in the public crawl.
A city police commander also called UMass Lowell police and asked them to help keep students in line, which drew several UMass Lowell officers into downtown.