By Zac Estrada, News Staff

Four Northeastern students were arrested Saturday for not cooperating with Boston Police Department (BPD) officers after they tried twice to break up a party around 1:30 a.m. in Mission Hill.

Two officers responded to a call about a loud party at 72 Hillside St. The responders could hear music coming from an apartment, according to the police report.

Officers found more than 50 people were in the apartment, who were “jumping up and down with the lights off and a strobe light on,” according to Officer Javier Velasquez, who wrote the report.

The residents eventually complied with BPD and presented identification. They were issued citations for hosting an unlicensed party after hours and loud music playing at a residence.

The officers left the building and were speaking to a small group of people at Pontiac and Hillside Streets when they heard the music start playing from the same apartment. Officers knocked on the door again and told the residents to turn the music down.

BPD reported the four were uncooperative and arrested Ryan Tack, 22; Michael Bogan, 22; Dan Kern, 21; and William Macowski, 22, all from Boston. Macowski is a Huntington News correspondent.

Tack told The News he and his three roommates were being cooperative with police. Tack said the four showed their identification when prompted.

“One of us asked, ‘What exactly are we being charged for?’” Tack said. “We asked if it was a noise complaint and who called it in.” He said one of the officers told them to “stop telling them how to do their job.”

“They were insulting our house, calling it ‘the mess,’” Tack said. “They told us we drank [expletive] beer.”

Tack said they got all of the guests to leave quickly. But after the officers left, they turned the music back on.

“It was on lower than before,” Tack said.

The officers returned and pushed the unlocked door open, he said. When one of the residents tried to approach an officer in the doorway, he was pushed up against the wall.

“One cop in particular was out of his mind,” Tack said. “He was particularly aggressive. He said to our friend, ‘don’t assault a police officer.’”

In the report, one of the roommates approached the officers in the door “with his hands up about to push Officer Velasquez out of the door way as Officer Velasquez immediately pushed his hands away and firmly advised him not to touch an officer.”

Tack said the officer went to arrest the resident, and then decided to take the other three into custody.

All four were charged with keeping a disorderly home, and arraigned Tuesday in West Roxbury District Court. They were each sentenced to 50 hours of community service.

Tack said the incident and charges were unusual and that the police report was incorrect.

“It just isn’t true,” he said. “All the police officers were riled up and thinking they were being disrespected.”