Published: 03/21/2007 Bar guest charged after slugging police officer By Julie Manganis Staff writer
SALEM - A Rockport innkeeper has been charged with punching an off-duty Salem police officer in the head during a disturbance at the Hawthorne Hotel Saturday night. Michael R. Welcome, 39, remains free on personal recognizance after a Salem District Court judge yesterday refused a request by a police prosecutor to revoke Welcome's bail in a similar incident last month, involving a Beverly cab driver. Welcome has a history of problems with the law involving alcohol and disorderly conduct. It was just after 11 p.m. when Welcome, sitting at a bar inside the Hawthorne Hotel, began getting boisterous, Salem police Lt. Conrad Prosniewski said. Patrolman Michael Lariviere, who was off duty and there to pick up his wife, told Welcome to quiet down. Welcome swung at the officer, striking the side of his head, and began swinging at other patrons in the normally quiet tavern. While he did not make contact with anyone else, his behavior was drawing a crowd, Prosniewski said. Welcome was released on bail over the weekend, but when Prosniewski learned that Welcome was already out on bail in the February incident, he urged Judge Michael Uhlarik to revoke Welcome's bail in that case. On Feb. 22, Gloucester police charged Welcome with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and evading a fare after a Beverly cab driver called to report he had a drunken customer who refused to pay the $45 fare and refused to get out of the cab. He was holding an open bottle of blackberry brandy. And in September, Welcome was sentenced to 90 days in jail for disorderly conduct involving a guest at his motel, the Peg Leg Inn. Welcome was on probation for a 2004 assault and battery and has a record of drunken driving stemming from two drunken-driving arrests in the same month. At the time, Gloucester District Court Judge Richard Mori told Welcome to "get a hold" of his problem before he kills someone. Judge Uhlarik denied the prosecutor's motion to revoke Welcome's bail, however, after defense lawyer Edward Pasquina told the judge that jailing Welcome would put him into bankruptcy. The judge did order Welcome to report to a probation officer once a week, submit to random alcohol tests to ensure he is not drinking, and stay away from the Hawthorne Hotel and Lariviere. "No alcohol," Uhlarik told Welcome. Welcome is due back in court May 31.
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