Mr. Mackey / South Park

On January 19th, the ProPo arrested 22-year-old Jeffrey Martin, a local Brown alum, for running a “makeshift drug lab” in his South Providence apartment.  According to a ProJo 7 to 7 news blog update published today, Martin told the police that he had learned how to make narcotics in the courses that he took at Brown.  Unfortunately, those same courses didn’t also teach him how to adequately hide a clandestine apartment-based drug operation.  Come on BIOL1210.  Get your shit together.

Read about the full story in the Herald on Thursday.

Thayer Street- Max Monn / Herald

The Providence police department is looking into an altercation which occurred outside Paragon Restaurant on Thayer Street last night.  According to the ProJo, the incident, which occurred just after 11 p.m., consisted of a heated argument between two men, and resulted in one man stabbing the other.  It appears as though neither party involved is in any way affiliated with Brown.

Cops checking IDs at Kartabar. Photo by Ruben W. Perez of the Providence Journal.

There’s a new group of cops in town, and they want to check your IDs. According an article in today’s ProJo, the Providence Police’s recently-created Underage Drinking & Nightclub Safety Task Force was on Thayer on a recent Thursday evening, checking bars for underage drinking and other code violations.

Kartabar received a citation for a blocked fire exit, but the officers found Thayer’s bars otherwise free of illegal activity. Spat’s, for example, “was quiet, and there was no evidence of underage drinking, liquor-control problems or fire-code violations.”

Nice work, Thayer-goers. Whether you’re abiding by the law or just have good fakes, we’re sure the U is breathing a sigh of relief.

David T. Howard ’09.5 has pled no contest to the charge that he assaulted a customer while working as a bouncer at FishCo, the Projo has reported. Howard, who has since been drafted to play for the Tennessee Titans, had originally appealed his conviction, but changed his plea to no contest after plea bargaining.

Howard allegedly punched and kicked a Southborough, Mass. man who complained about having to pay for drinks, though he had paid a fee to get all-you-can-eat-or-drink, as other attendees told police. FishCo, popular Wednesday night spot for Brown students, had to close down for three days as punishment.

So let this be a reminder to you, kids… FishCo may seem like it’s all class with its Ke$ha soundtrack and pole dancing and house-drink Fish Piss (we still don’t know exactly what it contains), but it can be sketchy too.

Just don’t complain about the prices.

Howdy, partner.

Clippity-cloppity sounds on Thayer this morning brought to mind the days of Liquid patrons calling hansom cabs for the ride home and rides tied up outside Tedeschi. (Oh wait, it would have been called Store 24 back then.) But it turns out it was just a mounted Providence Police officer, pictured outside the bookstore.

So watch where you step this afternoon. The real question: when can we expect equine SafeRide?