Crime Log entries are selected from Northeastern’s Division of Public Safety reports.
Tuesday, March 29 9 p.m. A manager at Wollaston’s in the Marino Center reported a middle-aged man had shoplifted aftershave. Upon being stopped, the man briefly struggled and then fled. The aftershave was recovered, but the man has yet to be found.
10 p.m. A 19-year-old male who was visiting his friend’s apartment in Loftman Hall reported his cell phone stolen. There were other non-students in the apartment visiting the resident’s roommates, and the male suspected one of them may have taken the cell phone. He asked his friend to contact the visitors, but all denied having stolen the phone.
An off-campus male reported he had a laptop computer which was stolen from Northeastern. He said the computer was given to him by a friend who found it in her 13-year-old son’s room, and she had entrusted the man to get the laptop back to the university. Officers checked the serial number on the laptop and discovered it belonged in an office on the third floor of Richards Hall but it had not yet been reported stolen. However, the next morning, it was reported stolen, along with two cell phones which were in the laptop bag. Northeastern University Police went back to the person who originally turned in the laptop, who in turn gave police the woman’s address. She recovered the two cell phones from her son and his 14-year-old friend, who admitted they had been playing basketball around campus and decided to walk through Richards before stealing the laptop. The woman also discovered two CD players in her son’s room, which police believe were stolen from Richards Hall Friday afternoon, one of which has yet to be claimed.
Wednesday, March 30 10:30 a.m. A 20-year-old female student discovered when she received her monthly check statement there were several checks she did not write which were being cashed to her account. The checks were cashed sometime in January and February. She resides in the YMCA and said she has no idea when her checks might have been stolen.
3 p.m. A female staff member in Hol-mes Hall reported seeing a man exposing himself in a stairway. She yelled at the man, and he left. Police were not able to be located.
Thursday, March 31 4:30 p.m. A 19-year-old female student reported her purse was stolen from a bathroom in the basement of Snell Library. The purse contained credit cards and a cell phone, but was turned in later intact.
7 p.m. A female student in White Hall reported a man tried to poke her window screen out by leaning over from a fire escape. When she asked him what he was doing, he said he was looking for someone and had the wrong room, and then left. While officers were searching the area about an hour later, another student in White Hall reported his laptop was stolen sometime that evening while he was out of the room. There appeared to be no forced entry through the door, but there was access to the room through the window.
Friday, April 1 1:30 a.m. A group of female students reported that while walking down Huntington Avenue, they were passed by a group of male students, one of which proceeded to walk up behind them, go between two of the females and slap them on the back of their upper thighs. Officers were able to stop and identify a 23-year-old male student who admitted he had touched the females in an inappropriate manner. He will be referred to the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR) and the females have not yet decided if they will press charges.
An officer came across an 18-year-old female student in the back of White Hall, leaning over a chain link fence, who appeared intoxicated and was vomiting. There were two males standing nearby watching her, who claimed not to know her. They were sent by her girlfriends, who she had previously had an argument with, to assist her if necessary. The student did not need to be taken to the hospital, and eventually one of her friends, who was also showing signs of intoxication, did come down to help her. Both will be referred to OSCCR.
5:30 a.m. A staff member parked his car in front of Willis Hall and came back to discover his window had been shattered and his antennae was broken off. The staff member said he remembered a few students fooling around out front the night before, and police checked records of entrance into Willis and questioned a resident who said his friend who lives in West Village was the one who smashed in the window. The student has yet to be contacted.
11:30 p.m. Officers stopped three men, one of which was carrying a 20-pack of beer toward Davenport B. The student carrying it was under 21, and said he was carrying it for the 21-year-old he was with. The men said they were visiting a student living in Davenport B, who was contacted by phone but refused to come down and talk with police officers. The beer was confiscated, and the student will be referred to OSCCR.
Monday, April 4 Midnight A 21-year-old male student reported he and his roommate had been involved in a dispute and claimed he was verbally threatened by the roommate because a Playstation was damaged. Police responded and upon questioning, discovered the unit was knocked off the TV as either one or both of the roommates leaned out the window and threw water balloons out of their West Village apartment. However, the roommate of the student denied ever throwing balloons and said he did not threaten his roommate. The Playstation turned out just to have a loose wire and is working, and one of the roommates is planning to move out.
11 a.m. A 20-year-old male student reported he was walking in an alley behind his apartment building on Westland Avenue when he was approached by a homeless man who punched him and demanded money. The student gave the man $6 and the man ran away.
10:30 p.m. One of the student organizations which resides in 232 CSC reported a box of flyers worth $300, designed to promote an event, was missing before they could be given out.
