DIXFIELD — Police issued summonses to 12 students from Mountain Valley and Dirigo high schools last week during an underage drinking party on the Common Road.

Police Chief Richard Pickett said officer Eric Bernier spotted what he considered to be suspicious activity at the home, which Pickett declined to identify. When he checked it out, between 20 and 30 teenagers from ages 15-17 were found. The incident occurred at 11 p.m. April 14.

Several other officers from the Rumford Police Department, Dixfield Police Department and Oxford County Sheriff’s Office assisted Bernier.

Pickett said at least 10 other young people scattered when police arrived.

Confiscated at the scene were three 30-packs of beer, alcoholic tea, and hard liquor, Pickett said.

The parents of all the children summoned were called to the site. None of the young people were allowed to leave until their parents picked them up and took custody of them.

Summoned for illegal possession of alcohol were two 17-year-old girls from Rumford, one 17-year-old girl from Mexico, one 15-year-old girl from Rumford, one 16-year-old girl from Dixfield, three boys from Peru, two age 17 and one age 15, one 16-year-old boy from Carthage, one 16-year-old boy from Rumford, one 16-year-old boy from Dixfield, and one 17-year-old boy from Dixfield.

All are scheduled to appear in Rumford District Court on June 5.

Pickett said the investigation is continuing, particularly regarding who may have supplied the alcohol and who may have provided the place for the party.

He said he had no evidence that the landowner knew of the party.

“This is the first drinking party of the year, coming onto graduation. It appears we got there early before someone got into a car and something terrible happened,” Pickett said.