BOSTON -- A limousine driver who was transporting a group of high school students after the prom was arrested in Lowell on Friday night and charged with driving while intoxicated, according to Lowell police.

Officials said several Lowell Catholic High School students hired a vehicle from Lynette’s Limousine Service for the prom on Friday evening. Two girls in the group became concerned that the driver, Brian Harrison, 45, of Tewksbury, was driving erratically and one of the girls called a parent when they stopped at the Showcase Cinema at 32 Reiss Ave., police said.

NewsCenter 5’s Shiba Russell reported that passenger Bianca Crowley, 17, said that the students were suspicious that Harrison was drinking during the trip because he got lost several times and repeatedly veered onto the rumble strips on the side of the road. Crowley said that the students demanded that Harrison pull over the limousine and he stopped in the movie theater parking lot.

Officers said the parent immediately contacted Lowell police and Harrison was arrested at the movie theater at 11:40 p.m.

According to police, Harrison initially left the area when the students refused to get back into the car, but returned shortly after and tried to convince them to enter the vehicle. Crowley said that Harrison pleaded with the students to forgive him.

“He actually put his hands in the praying position and said ‘Please, I’m sorry, I made a mistake,” said Crowley.

Harrison was released on bail Saturday and will be arraigned Monday morning in Lowell District Court.

“To put that many children in the hands of a person who thinks they have the right to jeopardize them is just appalling to me,” said Bianca’s mother, Maureen Tierney.

Harrison is the third limousine driver employed by Lynette’s to be arrested while chauffeuring customers.

In 2004, a driver taking a group of women home from a Madonna concert was charged with driving under the influence after he got lost and began swerving across the road. Four years earlier, Lynette's driver John Gilbert was arrested and charged with DUI while driving a group of teenagers to an N-SYNC concert. It was Gilbert's third DUI since 1986.

Another passenger won a $42,000 settlement in 1999 after a Lynette's driver was arrested for driving without a license and possession of cocaine. The court found Lynette's negligent in its hiring and supervision of drivers.

General manager Marco Delgado said that Lynette’s is shocked and devastated to learn of the arrest. Delgado said Harrison is a favored employee who has worked for the company for three years. Harrison has been suspended indefinitely, Delgado said.

Lynette’s will refund the students the cost of the limousine service and provide them a complimentary night out, Delgado said. He said the company has been working hard to make sure drivers are responsible and safe.