Compiled by Anna Glina, News Correspondent
Tuesday, Nov. 1
5:30 p.m.
Northeastern University Division of Public Safety (NUPD) detectives visited an 18-year-old student’s room in White Hall as part of an ongoing drug investigation. Officers found marijuana paraphernalia and a small amount of marijuana. Both were confiscated and the student was reported to the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR).
9:15 p.m.
A student reported she left a video camera that she signed out from the university unattended in the Qdoba restaurant on Huntington Avenue for five minutes. The camera was gone when she returned. The next day, NUPD officers discovered that a Qdoba staff member had found the camera and put it in a lost and found area in the back of the restaurant. The camera was returned to the university.
9:45 p.m.
A student reported he left his laptop unattended on the third floor of Snell Library for several hours earlier that evening. When he went to retrieve it, it was gone.
11:15 p.m.
A student reported to NUPD and Boston Police Department (BPD) officers that while she was walking on Park Drive a thief ran up to her and snatched her cell phone out of her hands. Similar instances have occurred close to campus. Two instances of cell phone theft occurred at Ruggles Station over the weekend, at 9 p.m. Saturday and noon Sunday.
Wednesday, Nov. 2
11 a.m.
A caller reported seeing a man tampering with a bicycle on a sidewalk in front of Davenport Commons B. An NUPD officer responded and apprehended the 29-year-old Boston man, who was cutting the cable on a locked bike. He was approached before his wire cutters had completely cut through the cable. The man was found to also be experiencing a medical emergency at the time and was taken to a hospital by ambulance. He will be summonsed to court for attempting to steal the bike. NUPD asks people who have had their bike cable damaged in the same area and want to assist with the investigation to contact the department through the non-emergency number.
Noon
A student reported she left her backpack in a classroom in the basement of International Village (INV) Oct. 26. She was studying in the room and forgot to take it. The student went back the following morning and found the backpack was gone. It contained a book, her license, credit cards, a small amount of cash and an external computer hard drive.
4 p.m.
A student reported his laptop was stolen after he left it for about half an hour on the second floor of Ell Hall.
5 p.m.
A student reported his bicycle was stolen from Centennial Common near the Behrakis Health Sciences Center. He had parked it around 1:30 p.m. and discovered at 4:30 p.m. that, although the bike was missing, the cable lock he had locked it with was cut in half and hanging on the bike rack.
10:30 p.m.
An NUPD officer found two intoxicated people outside 98 Hemenway St. The people, a 23-year-old man and a woman are Berklee College students. The male did not need hospitalization, but the female was taken to the Boston Medical Center. The Berklee College Public Safety Department was notified and will be giving its own report to the Berklee dean.
Thursday, Nov. 3
8:30 a.m.
Staff in Ryder Hall discovered two ceiling projectors missing from two classrooms. They were last known to be mounted on the ceiling two days earlier.
10 a.m.
A staff member who attended a workshop in the Curry Student Center (CSC) on Nov. 2 reported she left two cell phones outside the ballroom between 1 and 2 p.m. Both cell phones were missing an hour later.
6:30 p.m.
A student reported she locked her bike outside West Village A at 9 a.m. and at about 6:30 p.m. discovered it missing, along with the cable it had been locked with.
7 p.m.
A student reported he locked his bike at 5 p.m. in the Snell Quad. Around 7 p.m., he discovered both the bike and the cable lock missing.
Friday, Nov. 4
6 p.m.
A student working out in the Marino Center left the key to his locker on the floor of the room in which he was playing basketball in from about 5 to 6 p.m. He discovered the key missing, went to the staff desk and asked them to unlock his locker. He found both his wallet and cell phone were missing.
9 p.m. – Entry of the Week
A 22-year-old visitor, who was attending an event in Curry Student Center (CSC), was on the main floor when two people ran past her table, stole her cell phone and ran out of the building. She chased them toward Forsyth Street. When she got to Ruggles Station and lost sight of them, she reported the incident to NUPD officers there. By the time she got back to CSC, her laptop was also stolen. The woman believes it was a group of kids whose friends that were still in the area who stole the laptop while she was gone. She said the group was made up of high school-age teens.
9:30 p.m.
A Boston University student attending a dance production in Blackman Auditorium reported her purse, containing her iPod, was stolen. It was left unattended during the event.
Saturday, Nov. 5
2:45 a.m.
A student informed a Resident Assistant (RA) in Stetson West that a 19-year-old male student was intoxicated and vomiting in the second floor men’s room. Officers responded to the scene and the student was evaluated by EMTs. He was allowed to return to his room and was reported to OSCCR.
3:15 a.m.
Officers were called to the lobby of Speare Hall, where there were two intoxicated women. One, a visitor, was evaluated and allowed to return to her host’s room for the night. The other, an 18-year-old student, was also allowed to return home, and she was reported to OSCCR.
1:30 p.m.
A student reported that Nov. 3 she left her laptop unattended in the basement lounge in Dockser Hall at about 6 p.m. When she remembered she left it there, around 8 p.m., she discovered it was gone.
1:45 p.m.
A student reported that on Friday night, she was in the INV dining hall and put her wallet under her chair. She left around 11:30 p.m. and forgot her wallet. She went back the next morning and it was gone. It was not in the university’s lost and found. The wallet contained her credit cards, driver’s license and $40 in cash.
4:30 p.m.
Parking staff discovered a car with a broken window in the Camden Parking Lot. The window was broken with a rock that was on the seat. The owner of the car, a student, was contacted. He parked it at 6 p.m. the previous evening; an iPod was missing from the car.
10:30 p.m.
NUPD was notified by Norton, Mass. police that a 19-year-old Northeastern student was arrested for shoplifting in a convenience store in their town. In the course of that arrest, it was discovered that the he was in possession of an ID card of a student from Wheaton College, also in Norton. The Norton Police went to Wheaton, where it was found that the Northeastern student was visiting the Wheaton student and left his backpack in that student’s room. In that backpack were stolen purses from two other Wheaton students who had reported them stolen earlier that night. The student will be charged with all three thefts and has was reported to OSCCR.
Sunday, Nov. 6
1:15 a.m.
A student reported she had been at a party at 22 St. Cyprian St. and left her cell phone unattended in a part of the apartment and later discovered it missing. She didn’t know most of the people at the party and as she was reporting her phone missing, another student, a 20-year-old man, reported he was just robbed in the lobby of the building by two people who had left the same party. He was on his phone in the lobby when the two people leaving party, suspected of stealing the woman’s phone as well, grabbed the phone from his hand and threatened him. BPD was contacted and will take on the investigation of the private property.
Monday, Nov. 7
9:30 a.m.
A man who was visiting campus to attend a workshop in CSC reported that the previous evening, from 6 to 7 p.m., he had left a camera and his lenses unattended on the third floor. They were stolen.
12:30 p.m.
Staff on the second floor of 716 Columbus Ave. reported a man acting strangely entered their office asking irrational questions. Officers located the man, a 59-year-old from Boston, with some bizarre behavioral traits. He was escorted off campus and issued a trespass warning.
2 p.m.
Less than an ounce of marijuana was confiscated from an 18-year-old student’s room on the first floor of Stetson East as result of an ongoing investigation. He has been reported to OSCCR.
3:35 p.m.
As part of a second investigation, another 18-year-old in Stetson East, who lives on the second floor, was also found in possession of a small amount of marijuana, which was confiscated. He was reported to OSCCR.
4:30 p.m.
Parking staff in the Renaissance Parking Garage discovered a car with a broken window. They contacted the 19-year-old male student owner, who parked it the night before. His portable navigation device was missing from its console dock.
6:45 p.m.
A student reported he was in the CSC food court at 9 a.m. and left to go to class forgetting his iPhone on the table. After class, the student went back, but found the iPhone gone.
7:30 p.m.
A student reported he was studying on the third floor of Snell Library between 1 and 3 p.m. Nov. 4. During that time, he left his backpack unattended several times, leaving his study table to do other things in the library. When he got home that evening, he discovered his electronic dictionary was missing from his backpack.
Tuesday, Nov. 8
10:45 a.m.
A student reported he was sitting on a bench in Centennial Common talking on his cell phone when two young men sat on the bench with him and told him calmly to give them his phone. The student was intimidated by them and their statements. He did turn over his phone, after which the two men ran into the Ruggles Station. The student ran into Ryder Hall and called for help. NUPD notified transit police and will be working with them on getting video of the thieves.
11:30 a.m.
A staff member reported a computer was taken from a fourth floor office in Richards Hall when the office was accidentally left unlocked for about a half an hour that morning.
Noon
A student reported that the previous day at 11 a.m., she locked her bike on World Series Way with a cable and discovered it missing around 10 a.m. Tuesday. The cable with which the bike was locked was also gone.
1:30 p.m.
A student reported at about 10 p.m. Nov. 4, she plugged her camera into an outlet in the basement of Speare Hall to charge it and left it unattended until about midnight. When she returned to unplug it, it was gone.
2:15 p.m.
A graduate student reported he parked his bike on World Series Way at 8 a.m., and at about 2 p.m. discovered the bike missing but the U-bolt lock still locked to the bike rack. He presumes he didn’t lock the U-bolt around the right part of the bike.
4:45 p.m.
An 18-year-old male student reported he lost his credit card sometime between Sunday and Tuesday at 4 p.m. He could not find it, and called to cancel it, during which he found out it had been used for pizza on Huntington Avenue at about 4 p.m. Tuesday. The student admits he has a habit of carrying it loose in his pocket so he assumes it fell out somewhere.
