Commonwealth v. Mullen

The Commonwealth brings this interlocutory appeal from an order of a District Court judge suppressing evidence stemming from the defendant’s warrantless arrest for three motor vehicle offenses on November 18, 1993, on North Street, a public way adjacent to the campus of Fitchburg *405State College.1 The arresting officer was employed by the college as a special State police officer who was purportedly acting pursuant to G. L. c. 22C, § 63, inserted by St. 1991, c. 412, § 22. The statute grants such officers “the same power to make arrests as regular police officers for any criminal offense…