CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Jeromie Whalen, a Democratic candidate for Massachusetts’ 1st Congressional District, is responding to news reports detailing criminal charges he faced over a decade ago.
Whalen attributed his past legal trouble to college drinking, stating that he paid his penalties and learned from his past mistakes.
The news report detailed three separate arrests involving Whalen between 2006 and 2010. In 2006, Whalen was arrested as a college student following an alleged assault while intoxicated in a Florida hospital emergency room. He was arrested again in 2009 in connection with a noise complaint and in 2010 for operating under the influence following a car crash in Amherst…