Tyler J. Morin, 19, danced the night away at Quinby House on Saturday, September 17, impressing many with his moves. A week later, sitting with his mother watching the Polar Bears play football, the Brunswick Police Department issued him a criminal trespass warning.
Three days after the game, the Department of Safety and Security issued an alert informing the community that Morin was prohibited from the College. The alert noted that "Morin has a criminal background, and has been observed on campus on at least one other occasion acting suspiciously."
On September 10, Security "got a complaint from some female students that some people were sort of harassing them," Assistant Director of Security Louann Dustin-Hunter said. According to Lt. Kevin Schofield of the Brunswick Police Department, Morin was making comments that were "sexually explicit."
Security went and "checked them out and this person, Tyler Morin, was there. He was not a student, but was a guest of an employee [of the College]," Dustin-Hunter said. At this point the responding security officers asked him to leave Bowdoin and only come back if a student invited him.
"Since that time," as a result of research carried out by Mike Brown, Assistant Director of Security, "we found out that he has an extensive criminal record in his past," Dustin-Hunter said. In particular, "in burglary, thefts, and drug activity."
Dustin-Hunter declined to cite any specific cases, dates, or places.
The Brunswick Police Department's in-house system, which "is not inclusive of the entire state," show that Morin was cited for operating a vehicle after suspension of his license and was issued some tickets for traffic violations, according to Lt. Schofield.
In records from the Androscoggin Superior Court in Auburn obtained by the Orient, Morin was arrested on drug charges in March, 2005. On September 1, he plead guilty to one charge of "unlawful furnishing of scheduled drugs." Specifically, Morin plead guilty to "furnishing" cocaine.
As the Orient went to press, no other independently-verifiable information regarding Morin's alleged criminal activity had been found.
On September 24, Assistant Director Mike Brown spotted Morin, who was sitting with his mother, at the Bowdoin-Middlebury football game. "Because we had found out about his criminal background, we decided that we just didn't want him here so we called Brunswick Police and they issued him a trespass warning at that time," said Dustin-Hunter.
Although Morin "actually didn't commit a criminal act on campus," the "extent of his criminal history" warranted the issuance of a trespass warning, Dustin-Hunter said.
In an email, Dustin-Hunter added that she had "learned that Mr. Morin had been identified as the person reportedly acting suspiciously in a college dorm, which resulted in some female students calling security in early September. He was also identified as attempting to enter two College house social events and found with alcohol on his person [the weekend of September 16]. He is underage."
One of those social events was Quinby's 1980s-themed party on September 17 where Morin was spotted dancing. "His dancing was spectacular and I was envious," Andrew Sinnenberg '08, the DJ at Quinby's party, said in a telephone interview with the Orient.
"After the kegs [at Quinby] were kicked, there was a late-night dance party that continued on the first floor of Quinby," Courtney Camps '08 said.
"There was this guy who was doing the Crip Walk. He was such a fantastic dancer that we all rallied around him and I took a picture," Camps said.