Former HealthSource RI director arrested on social host charge

FORMER HEALTHSOURCE RI EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CHRISTINE FERGUSON is seen in this file photo from 2013, Ferguson, on right, was at PBN's Summit on the Health Benefits Exchange. Ferguson was charged over the weekend by Jamestown police for furnishing alcohol to a minor. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI
FORMER HEALTHSOURCE RI EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CHRISTINE FERGUSON is seen in this file photo from 2013, Ferguson, on right, was at PBN's Summit on the Health Benefits Exchange. Ferguson was charged over the weekend by Jamestown police for furnishing alcohol to a minor. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

(Updated 3:12 p.m.)
JAMESTOWN – Former HealthSource RI director Christine C. Ferguson was arrested over the weekend by police for allegedly procuring alcohol for a minor.

Ferguson, 56, along with her husband, Frederick W. Glomb, 59, of 37 Bay View Drive, were charged with furnishing/procuring alcohol for a minor under 21 early Sunday morning, according to the Jamestown police log.

The log states that police were called to Bay View Drive for a report of suspicious activity.

According to a press release from the Jamestown Police Department, Ferguson and Glomb were charged under the social host law. Police were called to the area of Bay View Drive for a report of a “loud party” at approximately 12 a.m., but could not find the source of the complaint.

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An hour later, officers checked the neighborhood again and found an intoxicated juvenile male in the road, and determined that he had left a home at 37 Bay View Drive, the release said.

Officers were met by Ferguson at the side door and could see a large gathering of “underage persons inside and a significant amount of alcohol.”

“Ms. Ferguson denied any knowledge of a party,” the release stated.

Officers then entered the home and detained several juveniles and underage persons “many of them who were intoxicated,” police said.

While several people inside the home fled before officers could detain them, those who remained were released to their parents, police said.

Ferguson and Glomb could not be reached for comment.

According to the R.I. Judiciary’s website, Ferguson and Glomb are scheduled to be arraigned on Friday in Second Division District Court in Newport. They were released on personal recognizance on Sunday.

Ferguson was replaced by Anya Rader Wallack as the head of HealthSource RI by Gov. Gina M. Raimondo. Wallack took over the state’s health insurance exchange in January. Ferguson was appointed in 2012 by then-Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee to lead the exchange.

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