GILFORD — Three Massachusetts men ran afoul of the police early Saturday morning after doing deliberate "fishtails" in the parking lot of the China Bistro restaurant.
Lt. Jim Leach said Nicholas C. Mastropietro, 30, of 19 Stone Road in Wilmington, Mass. was charged with driving while intoxicated and negligent driving for misuse of power.
One of Mastropietro two passengers, David W. Hawkes, 29, of Lowell, Mass. was charged with transporting alcoholic beverages (open container) and possession of controlled drugs.
The other, Derek J. Pollinger, 33, of 145 Columbia Road in Lowell, Mass. was charged with transporting alcohol beverages (open container) and resisting arrest.
Leach said all three were brought to Belknap County House of Corrections where they were later released on personal recognizance bail.
He said the tip of the erratic driving came earlier in the evening from someone near McDonalds Restaurant in Laconia who saw the Brown Ford Explorer headed east toward Gilford.
Leach said the arrests took place during the height of the weekend Nor'Easter.

GILFORD — Police have charged a Gilmanton man with stealing fire wood from a former business partner.
Police said the victims reported the theft on January 28 telling them that Nicolas Fleming, 43, of 22 Drake Ave. in Gilmanton had come to a job site on Sawmill Road in Gilford and had taken 1 1/2 cords of wood valued at about $400.
The victim said he and Fleming once worked together but had a falling out in December. He said Fleming had no reason to take the wood.
Police went to the site and noticed that there were tire marks and foot steps that went back and forth from where the victim said his wood had been stacked.
The next day, the victim told police there was a witness to the theft and police interviewed that witness via telephone two days later. The witness said he saw a blue pickup being driven by a man he used to see at the job site. He said he was driving a Ford Ranger with a trailer with the N.H. registration of FLEMDOG.
Police next interviewed the property owner who told them he had not given Fleming permission to be on his property. The property owner said his contract for firewood was with the victim.
The land owner also said Fleming had told him he would do the job for less money but the land owner said he would keep his business with the victim unless he didn't want to do the job any longer.
Fleming was arrested by Gilford Police and charged with one count of theft by unauthorized taking. He appeared on February 7 in the 4th Circuit Court, Laconia Division and Judge Jim Carroll ordered him released on $1,000 personal recognizance bail and to stay away from the victim.
In a twist to the story, Gilmanton Police Chief Joe Collins confirmed yesterday that his department is investigating a complaint made by Fleming against the victim.
Collins said the victim came to Fleming's home and allegedly assaulted him and the Gilmanton Police were called during the altercation.

LACONIA — On the recommendation of City Manager Scott Myers, the City Council last night rejected the report of a fact finder appointed to resolve the impasse between the city and Professional Firefighters, Local 1153, in negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement. The last contract expired in June, 2010.
Myers said that both parties agreed to the appointment of a neutral fact finder, whose recommendations remain confidential until ratified by both the city and the union, when they would provide the basis of a collective bargaining agreement.
Myers recommended that the council reject the report based on the "cost items" within it. He said that that since the fact finder issued his report the Laconia Professional Firefighters have met, but he was not aware that the union members have acted on the report.