RUMFORD - Twenty-five students, mostly from Mountain Valley High School in Rumford, were summoned early Wednesday morning after Maine State Police learned about an underage drinking party at Bunker Pond in Roxbury, police said.

According to investigating Trooper Jason Wing, the youths were 17 and 18 years old and were from Byron, Mexico, Peru, Roxbury and Rumford.

There were 19 criminal summons issued on charges of consumption of alcohol by a minor, and six juvenile summons issued, also on charges of consuming alcohol

Wing declined to identify all but one young adult.

State law prevents youths under the age of 18 who are charged with crimes from being publicly identified, but 18-year-olds are considered adults.

"I can't give the names of the (18-year-olds), because this is still being investigated," Wing said late Thursday night.

Wing said he arrested Ryan Cormier, 18, of Rumford on a charge of disorderly conduct. Cormier was also one of those summoned on a charge of being a minor drinking alcohol. Maine's legal drinking age is 21.

"Cormier was being very loud and disrespectful and I warned him to keep his mouth quiet, but he continued and continued and continued. We even let him go on for a couple of minutes while his friends even tried to tell him to stop or he was going to get into trouble," Wing said.

All will be arraigned on the Class E misdemeanor crimes at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 5 in Rumford District Court.

Wing said most of the teens are Mountain Valley High School students, but he didn't know how many of them are seniors who will be graduating at commencement exercises, which start at 4 p.m. Saturday, June 7, in the high school gym.

Superintendent Jim Hodgkin declined to comment on the charges or whether there could be special consequences if any of the students charged are in the graduating class. He said that Principal Matt Gilbert, who was standing nearby, could not comment, either, because school policy.

State police learned about the party early Wednesday morning when a concerned parent contacted a dispatcher at the Gray barracks. Police arrived shortly after 2 a.m., and some of the teens had already left, Wing said. The party was being held in a logging yard at the pond, which is accessible by a dirt road that runs between routes 120 and 17.

"There was a combination of malt beverages, beer and hard liquor there," Wing said. "We found several people who were so heavily intoxicated that they had to be woken up. Rumford police brought along a portable breath kit, and there were a couple of people who said they had not been drinking, and they were tested and found to be not telling the truth."

Although police have yet to learn who supplied the youths with the alcohol, Wing said he didn't expect any more charges to be made.

Some parents of those who were charged were trying to downplay the seriousness of the crimes, he said.

"Some of the parents I've spoken to, it's not that they don't care their kids are drinking, but they don't see any problem with it since they're not driving," he said, "But we're trying to send the message that if there is underage drinking, there's going to be consequences."