By Jen Nelson
Tuesday, February 17 6:30 a.m. A staff member in Smith Hall reported offensive graffiti on the first floor wall.
5 p.m. A 24-year-old male student reported his cell phone missing after he left it unattended for 10 minutes on the 3rd floor of the Curry Student Center 10 days earlier.
Wednesday, February 18 10:30 a.m. A 23-year-old male graduate teaching assistant (TA) reported his laptop stolen after leaving the TA’s office in Cullinane Hall unlocked and unattended.
2 p.m. A 21-year-old male student reported several personal items missing from his apartment at 109 St. Stephen St. after being away overnight. Although his door had allegedly been locked, the window over the fire escape had been left unlocked.
11 p.m. A 21-year-old female student reported her backpack missing after leaving it in the O’Bryant African-American Institute the previous evening. The backpack contained a calculator and a discman.
Thursday, February 19 3 p.m. Residential Life staff in White Hall reported confiscating a fake ID after a female student had used it to sign out a DVD from the main office. The ID showed her age to be over 21. Officers confiscated the ID, and she will be referred to Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR), as well as the Department of Motor Vehicles.
8 p.m. Officers responded to 238 Hemenway St. at the request of Boston Police (BPD), who had responded to a noise complaint in an apartment for the third time in the same week. The resident of the apartment, a 21-year-old male student, was uncooperative with police and refused to keep the noise down. He will be referred to OSCCR, and has been warned by BPD to keep the noise down.
An anonymous caller from Davenport B reported a suspicious man standing on the sidewalk exposing himself. Officers responded and saw a man running away from the area, but were unable to locate him.
About an hour later, a female student at 116 St. Stephen St. reported similar behavior from a man standing in the alley behind her apartment. Officers responded and found the man exposing himself. Elfy Contreras, 25, of Boston, was arrested for open and gross ludeness, and was arraigned at Roxbury District Court the next day on the same charges. He was only charged for the second incident because the caller from the first incident was anonymous and therefore could not identify the suspect.
Friday, February 20 6 a.m. A staff member in West Campus A discovered a flood in the basement of the building. It appeared that someone had intentionally opened a water valve in the trash room, flooding the laundry room.
9:30 a.m. A Resident Assistant (RA) caught an 18-year-old male writing graffiti on the fifth floor of White Hall. The student told the RA that he was responding to graffiti previously written by a friend of his, then gave the RA the name of the 19-year-old student. Officers talked to both, who admitted to writing the graffiti, and both will be referred to OSCCR.
3 p.m Housing staff reported finding a beer ball in a leased apartment at 52 Westland Ave. while delivering a new refrigerator. The residents, a 19-year-old male and a 20-year-old male, admitted to having a party the week before and ordering the beer ball from a liquor store that delivers and fails to check for ID on delivery. The students will be referred to OSCCR.
5 p.m. An officer accompanied Speare Hall ResLife staff in investigating an incident with a resident. Upon entering the resident’s room, the officer found a set of double-edged target throwing knives. The knives were confiscated, and the student will be referred to OSCCR.
5:30 p.m. An 18-year-old male student reported his Playstation stolen after leaving his room at the YMCA unlocked and unattended for three hours.
10:30 p.m. Several reports were made of a woman being carried down Symphony Road. Officers responded and located the 22-year-old female student, who was heavily intoxicated. She was taken to the hospital by Boston EMS, and will be referred to OSCCR.
Sunday, February 22 1 a.m. Several reports were made of a fight on the street near 319 Huntington Ave. Officers responded with BPD and found two men lying unconscious on the sidewalk. Officers performed first aid on both men, one of whom had been kicked in the head and required medical attention. The other had minor injuries and refused medical attention. Both were intoxicated. As the injured man was being put into the ambulance, the second man became belligerent, fighting with officers to be allowed into the ambulance and trying to interfere with the EMS staff. He was arrested by BPD for assaulting an officer. Witnesses were able to describe those who had run away from the fight before officers arrived. A 21-year-old male student who fit the description of one of the men who had run away was located by officers on Gainsborough Street. The witness was brought to the scene and positively identified the student as the one who had kicked the injured man in the head. The student admitted to attacking the men after they had picked a fight with him. He, too, was arrested by BPD for assault, and will also be referred to OSCCR.
9 a.m. An officer patrolling the area around the Behrakis Health Sciences Center found a man sleeping in the basement. He claimed to be an employee at another local college who decided to sleep in Behrakis after getting out of work late, not wanting to make the trip home. Michael Brown, 37, of Everett, was arrested on other outstanding warrants for failing to pay motor vehicle fines, and was arraigned at Roxbury District Court the next day on the same charges.
1 p.m. A resident of Stetson East called out of concern for an 18-year-old female who had awakened Sunday morning hungover with bruises all over her body. The female admitted to drinking heavily the night before, then being separated from her friends at a club. She does not remember much else after that, except wandering downtown for several hours by herself. She claims she was found sitting on a sidewalk in Chinatown by a police officer who drove her home, although neither BPD nor MBTA had any reports of driving an intoxicated woman home that night. She also misplaced her purse sometime during the night. She was taken to Beth Israel Deconess Medical Center for evaluation, although she did not have serious injuries. She will be referred to OSCCR.
1:30 p.m. An officer exiting Stetson East walked past a room on the first floor and detected a strong odor of marijuana. He knocked on the door and the 19-year-old male who answered claimed that it was cigarette smoke, and would not let the officer in, claiming his roommate was sleeping. The officer told the Resident Director (RD) to keep an eye on the room in the future.
2:30 p.m. An upperclass female student in West Campus A reported several items of laundry missing after leaving her laundry in a dryer in the laundry room unattended for an hour.
Monday, February 23 4 p.m. A 25-year-old female graduate student reported losing her wallet somewhere on campus between noon and 4 p.m. The wallet contained $20 and several credit cards.
4:30 p.m. A 22-year-old female student reported that $90 had been used on her Husky Card at vending machines around campus after she lost it the previous day.
Tuesday, February 24 1 a.m. An officer found a man sitting alone in a car with his lights on at the corner of Hemenway Street and Forsyth Street. The man attempted to drive off, but the officer stopped him. When the man got out of his car, the officer detected a strong scent of marijuana. The officer also found a bag of marijuana and a bong sitting on the back seat of the car. The man, a 19-year-old student, admitted to smoking with two of his friends, but wouldn’t provide the officers with the names. He will be referred to OSCCR.
Crime Log Entry of the Week Friday, February 20
2 p.m. An 18-year-old female resident of Speare Hall reported being punched in the face by a 19-year-old male resident the night before, after having a political debate that got the male student angry. The female did not wish to press criminal charges, and the male acknowledged that his actions were out of line and that he had been drinking at the time. He will be referred to OSCCR.
