Compiled by Anna Glina and Carolyn Willander, News Correspondents
Monday, Aug. 29
11:00 p.m.
A student reported discovering her bicycle missing from outside Burstein Hall sometime between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. The cut cable lock was found on the ground.
Tuesday, Aug. 30
Noon
A student who parked her car near The Fenway reported her car was broken into sometime since 9 p.m. the previous night. A GPS was reported missing.
1:30 p.m.
A student left his laptop in a backpack unattended for five minutes on the first floor of the Marino Center. Upon returning, he discovered the laptop, along with his passport, was gone.
4:30 p.m.
A staff member reported her bike missing after locking it at 9 a.m. on Aug. 29. When she returned that evening, her bike was gone.
Thursday, Sept. 1
2:15 p.m.
Parking garage staff at the Columbus parking garage reported two teenagers loitering in the garage. Upon investigation, Northeastern University Division of Public Safety (NUPD) officers discovered the two underage boys, neither of whom is affiliated with the university, smoking marijuana in the garage. The teens were taken into custody, their parents were called and they were issued formal trespassing notices.
Friday, Sept. 2
11:30 a.m.
A mentor in the Dana Research Center noticed a stranger enter an office and begin to use an office laptop. The faculty member confronted the man, who immediately left the building. The laptop was discovered unplugged.
Noon
A student sitting in his bedroom in a privately-owned apartment on The Fenway heard a noise in the living room. Upon investigating, the student found a burglar within the apartment, who ran off with a laptop. The student chased the burglar, yelled, “Drop the laptop!” and the laptop was eventually recovered.
3 p.m.
A student left his wallet unattended on a counter near the printers at InfoCommons in Snell Library. Later, a person who found the wallet called and returned it with all of its contents.
9 p.m.
A 19-year-old male student was seen by an officer walking on Hemenway Street, drinking a beer and carrying a 12-pack. When the officer intervened, the student lied about his name and age, but eventually admitted he was underage. The alcohol was confiscated and the student will be reported to Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR).
11 p.m.
An 18-year-old male student was seen with a 19-year-old visitor carrying a case of beer under his jacket. When police approached, one of them tried to hide behind a parked car. The 19-year-old admitted to purchasing the beer with a fake ID. He will be charged with buying alcohol with a fake ID without being 21. The student will be reported to OSCCR.
Saturday, Sept. 3
3 a.m.
A proctor in Stetson West called to report a male resident was carried into the building apparently intoxicated. Responding officers found the student in his room unconscious and covered in vomit. He was taken to the hospital by ambulance and will be reported to OSCCR.
12:30 p.m.
A staff member using the Marino Center left his clothing in a gym bag on a bench in the men’s locker room. When he returned to the locker room about an hour later, he discovered his clothing all over the floor and the gym bag missing.
5 p.m.
A 19-year-old student living in a private apartment on Cunard Street reported two laptops missing. Investigating officers talked to a neighbor who shares a fire escape with the student, who claimed to have been in his apartment when a man on the fire escape came through the open window. The neighbor had yelled at the man, who proceeded to exit through the fire escape.
9 p.m.
A student playing basketball at the Marino Center left his iPhone unattended for an hour. When he returned, his phone was missing, although several other phones in the pile were still there.
Sunday, Sept. 4
12:30 a.m.
An NUPD officer noticed three men across the street from Kerr Hall in The Fens smoking. Upon investigation, officers discovered the men, all students, smoking marijuana. The students’ pipes, marijuana and paraphernalia were confiscated and they will be reported to OSCCR.
2:45 a.m. – Entry of the Week
A female student approached a Resident Assistant (RA) in Melvin Hall and asked for advice on how to clean vomit off of bedding. The RA discovered the student’s 18-year-old roommate was intoxicated and vomited on her own bed. The RA contacted NUPD officers, who determined the girl did not need to be hospitalized. She was reported to OSCCR.
6 p.m.
A student reported that he left his keys in a fifth floor office in Nightingale Hall. The office is shared with other graduate students. He was not sure if his keys were stolen, or if he had lost them somewhere else.
Monday, Sept. 5
4 p.m.
Parking garage staff in the Renaissance Garage discovered a student’s car with a broken window on the 5th level owned by a 20-year-old male student. A GPS was missing from the car. The officers went through the rest of the parking garage, and discovered two other cars on different levels with broken windows. An iPod was missing from each of the vehicles.
11 p.m.
An officer walking through the Columbus Place parking area on Burke Street was hit by a water balloon thrown from the rooftop of an apartment building on Tremont Street. Officers discovered a party in the building, with a large number of people throwing water balloons and other items from the roof. The people hosting the party and all the guests were underage students. A large amount of alcohol was present. Jacob Herr, a 19-year-old student, was arrested for disorderly conduct, possession of alcohol and procuring alcohol for minors. His two roommates, another 19-year-old Northeastern student and a 19-year-old not affiliated with the university, will be summonsed to court. Male and female NU students at the party have also been reported to OSCCR.
Tuesday, Sept. 6
4 p.m.
An RA in White Hall notified NUPD of two instances where people wrote racist postings on whiteboards of students in the residence hall. A NUPD officer and Residential Life staff held a floor meeting the next night to remind the freshmen about standards of behavior and that intolerance will not be allowed.
11:30 p.m.
Campus police at Fisher College informed NUPD that one of their students had been robbed of her cellphone while walking on Huntington Avenue near the Northeastern campus earlier in the night. She was walking near Gainsborough Street when a person approached her and grabbed the cell phone from her hand.
Wednesday, Sept. 7
10:30 a.m.
A 19-year-old male student reported his jacket stolen from the fourth floor of Snell Library where he left it about an hour earlier. He left it unattended on the back of a chair and came back to find it missing. NUPD reviewed the video and discovered a college-aged female stole the jacket.
5:30 p.m.
A staff member reported that while she was sitting in Peet’s Coffee, her purse was stolen from the back of her chair. Her credit cards had been used in Cambridge by the time she called her credit card companies later in the afternoon.
6 p.m.
A student left her laptop under her chair in Snell Library around 2:30 p.m. She returned an hour later to find it gone.
7:30 p.m.
A student who lives in International Village reported her iPod missing from its docking station in her room. She knew her roommate had guests in the room the previous night. The roommate contacted her guests, and a couple of days later, a 17-year-old visitor contacted NUPD and admitted to stealing the iPod. The iPod has been returned, the victim has decided not to press criminal charges and the university police at the student’s college have been notified.
Thursday, Sept. 8
3:30 p.m.
A student standing outside International Village was talking on her cell phone when a young man came by, grabbed the phone and ran.
8 p.m.
A student reported that he locked his bike at International Village on the third floor. When he checked the bike rack at 8 p.m. the following day, both the bike and bike lock were missing.
9:15 p.m.
A 26-year-old male alumnus walking on Huntington Avenue near the YMCA was talking on his iPhone when a middle-aged man on a bike grabbed the phone from his hand. A few minutes later, officers spotted a person who matched the description. Upon investigation, they discovered it was not the thief. However, NUPD arrested Rodney Massie, 43, on an outstanding warrant in Lynn for assault and battery.
10:15 p.m.
A student reported his bike missing after having locked it in Centennial Common. He discovered a cut cable lock near the area where he had locked his bike.
Friday, Sept. 9
2 a.m.
A proctor from International Village called to report a student signed in who appeared to be intoxicated. Officers entered the student’s room with a master key after no response to their knocking, and found her passed out on her bed. She was taken by an ambulance to the hospital. The student was reported to OSCCR.
Saturday, Sept. 10
7:30 a.m.
An RA from White Hall called to report two students were passed out in the hall in front of their dorms. They were reported to OSCCR.
Noon
A 21-year-old female student was taken from St. Stephen Street to the hospital for alcohol poisoning after a night out celebrating her friend’s 21st birthday. She will be reported to OSCCR.
Sunday, Sept. 11
11:30 p.m.
A proctor reported a student was carried into 337 Huntington Ave. The female was intoxicated after drinking about five shots, but EMTs ruled she did not need to go to the hospital. The student will be reported to OSCCR.
