Trio Arrested After Aquatic Escape on Baboosic Lake

Three teens who police say swam across Baboosic Lake to Amherst, two of them doing so twice, in an attempt to elude police were arrested over the weekend.

Police say they were called to Four Seasons beach at 3:50 a.m. on Saturday, July 20, for suspicious subjects on the private beach. 

When police attempted to talk to the teens, they say three of the four at the beach took off on foot, while the fourth hung back, remaining with an officer on the beach. Police learned the three who fled swam across Baboosic Lake to Amherst. 

Officers waited near the beach and a short time later saw two kayaks returning across the lake. When the kayaks beached, police attempted again to talk to the teens but they jumped back in the lake and began a second swim.

One teen, Brian Peterson, 19, of Carriage Lane, Merrimack, turned back, however, and was arrested for resisting detention.

Police used a boat provided by a Merrimack homeowner to cross the lake and arrest Lauren Provost, 17, of Lamson Drive, Merrimack, also on a charge of resisting detention, on the Amherst shore. A third person, Danielle Pelletier, 19 of Marty Drive, eluded police, but turned herself in on a warrant for resisting detention on Sunday, June 21.

All three teens were released on $1,000 personal recognizance bail and ordered to appear in the 9th Circuit Court, District Division, in Merrimack on Aug. 9 to answer to the misdemeanor charges. A misdemeanor is punishable by a year in jail and/or a $2,000 fine.