Stone House Motor Inn

By Parker Gavigan
Standing in front of his motel office, Jesse Poznanski on Thursday described what happened the morning of Easter Sunday at the Stone House Motel in Foster.
«All of a sudden there were cars and cars, they just kept coming in. We were trying to get everybody out of here,» said the 20-​year-​old manager.
Poznanski said a small get together of friends turned into some 60 people drinking in the parking lot.
«Somebody might have thrown it up on Facebook, then everybody was texting each other and it spread from there,» Poznanski said.
Once the police showed up, Poznanski was on the hook. He lives there. He’s the manager, so he was charged with violating the states social host law.
Police arrested 25 people for underage drinking, many of whom were from Connecticut, including 12 kids, ages 15 to 17.
«I don’t condone it — it would have never happened at my house. My stepson is 20 years old, lesson learned,» Gordon Rogers said.
Rogers is not only Poznanski’s stepfather and owner of the motel, he’s Foster’s Town Council president. His wife, Heidi, won the Republican nomination last year for Lt. Governor.
Both are emergency medical technicians.
«We’ve been to several calls where our own kid’s friends have died as a result of this. So we take it seriously, it’s nothing we take lightly,» Heidi Rogers said.
To prove he doesn’t take the charges lightly, Poznanski showed NBC 10 a tattoo on his arm of a friend who died in a drunken-​driving crash last March.
He said he thinks of him often when his other friends want to get behind the wheel.