URI Student Ordered to Complete Community Service for Ecstasy Possession

WAKEFIELD – A University of Rhode Island student has been ordered to complete community service after pleading no contest in Washington County Superior Court to possession of ecstasy.

Nathaniel Fisher, 21, of 82 Cherryville Stanton Road, Flemington, NJ, pleaded no contest Tuesday to a South Kingstown police felony charge of possession of a controlled substance. The charge emanates from an arrest in March 2009. According to court records and URI’s student database, Fisher is a student at the college.

Superior Court Associate Justice Edwin Gale ordered Fisher to complete 100 hours of community service and to make a $250 donation to the Violent Crimes Indemnity Fund. The charge will also be filed for one year, and in return for Fisher’s plea, an additional charge of transportation of alcohol by a minor was dismissed.

According to South Kingstown police reports included in court files, at 1 a.m. on March 28, 2009, an officer saw a car driven by Fisher drift over the double lines on Kingstown Road.

While the officer made the traffic stop, he noted that a passenger in the back seat was moving around, as if attempting to conceal something. Another officer removed him from the car, finding an open can of Coors Light.

Police conducted a pat-down search of Fisher, finding a pill. When police asked him what it was, Fisher said it was ecstasy. The pill later tested positive as ecstasy. Police also found 14 cans of Coors Light and a 12-pick of Yuengling in the trunk of the car.

Two passengers in Fisher’s car – Marcus Costitch and Devon M. DiCarlo – were also cited for underage possession of alcohol. Fisher was 19 at the time of his arrest, and Costitch and DiCarlo were 18. According to court records, Fisher has two previous arrests in New Jersey for possession of marijuana.

All information is compiled from records at Fourth Division District Court and Washington County Superior Court.