LAWRENCE — The Andover teenager charged with providing alcohol to minors at a party connected to last year's suicide of Elizabeth Mun will spend the next 18 months on probation.
Zachary Zimmerman, 19, appeared in Lawrence District Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to providing alcohol to minors.
The former Concord Academy student and current freshman at the University of Vermont hosted an underage drinking party on Feb. 14, 2009, at his mother's Williams Street home.
Mun, 16, of Wellesley was Zimmerman's classmate at Concord Academy. She attended the party but left early the next morning and was found by police facedown in nearby Hussey Brook Pond, just 100 yards away from Zimmerman's home at 58 Williams St.
Mun was taken to Lawrence General Hospital and later transferred to Children's Hospital in Boston, where she died that night.
The medical examiner's office ruled the cause of death was suicide by drowning, but also that consumption of alcohol was not a factor in her death.
Under an agreement with the court, Zimmerman admitted to providing alcohol to minors at the party. When police searched Zimmerman's home, they said they found two empty 30-pack cases of Coors Light beer, three bottles of Smirnoff Vodka, a bottle of Jagermeister, a bottle of Jose Cuervo tequila, a bottle of Lindemans chardonnay and several beer cans and bottles.
There also were six marijuana pipes, a grinder, and a leather container holding the drug, police said.
Zimmerman declined to comment outside the courtroom yesterday.
"We're just happy it's over," said John Valerio, his attorney. "My client will go back to his normal life."
Also charged with providing alcohol to minors at the party was Zimmerman's classmate Morgan Ingari of Winchester.
Police said Zimmerman drove Ingari to a liquor store to buy alcohol with a fake driver's license. Partygoers at Zimmerman's home had taken up a collection for the alcohol, police said.
Ingari admitted to sufficient facts after her arraignment last year. Her case was continued without a finding for two years and she was placed on probation.
Mun was the daughter of Edward Mun, a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and Sue Lee, an orthodontist in Framingham.
