Compiled by Anna Glina, News Correspondent
Tuesday, Nov. 15
8:30 p.m.
A student reported her car was broken into while it was parked in the North Lot outside of Stetson East and her GPS device was stolen. The security officer assigned to the parking lot last checked the lot at 7:30 p.m. and said the window was not broken then.
Wednesday, Nov. 16
11 a.m.
A student reported he left his backpack, containing his laptop, in the International Village (INV) dining hall at about 7 p.m. the previous night. At 11:30 p.m. he remembered he left it there, but the dining hall was closed. When he went back in the morning, he learned it was not found by food service employees or turned in to the Northeastern University Division of Public Safety (NUPD) lost and found.
8:15 p.m.
A student reported he was playing basketball at the Marino Center between 7:30 and 8 p.m. He left his cell phone unattended at the side of the basketball court. When he finished playing, it was gone.
Thursday, Nov. 17
8:35 a.m.
A manager at Wollastons in the Marino Center caught a high school student shoplifting fruit snacks. The teen was issued a trespass warning and his school was notified.
1 p.m.
A staff member reported that the previous day, her cell phone was left unattended in her office during the afternoon and she couldn’t find it the next morning. The staff member was unsure if she lost it somewhere else or if it was stolen from her office.
1:15 p.m.
A detective was in Stetson West to interview an 18-year-old student about a previous incident involving the sale of alcohol to minors. That student admitted to being the middleman in illegal alcohol sales to other underage people. The NUPD detective confiscated vodka from his room. He was reported to the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR). NUPD’s investigation is ongoing.
1:30 p.m.
Officers confiscated rum and a fake ID from a student in Stetson West. The student admitted that he bought alcohol for a fee with the ID for other underage students. He will be summonsed to court and was reported to OSCCR.
5:15 p.m.
An NUPD officer on Huntington Avenue was approached by a distraught man bleeding from recent injuries who reported he was assaulted at an apartment at 614 Columbus Ave. The man said his friend was still in the apartment and he feared for his safety. NUPD and Boston Police Department (BPD) officers responded and heard a commotion coming from the apartment, forced the door open and found several people inside. There was a gun on a counter and another person who had some scalp wounds from a fight. Officers determined from interviews that a 20-year-old Northeastern student who lives in the apartment arranged to sell a significant amount of marijuana to a person he met the day before, to whom he had sold a small amount of marijuana. That person came over to the apartment the next night, allegedly to buy a very large amount of marijuana with friends. The buyers pulled out a gun and attempted to rob the student rather than pay him for the marijuana and a struggle ensued. BPD arrested two people for armed home invasion, assault with a gun and attempted robbery. They also arrested the student for selling drugs. His partner in the sale, a Wentworth Institute of Technology student, was also arrested.
8:30 p.m.
A student reported that between 6:30 and 7:15 p.m. that evening, while eating dinner at Panera Bread on Huntington Avenue, two wallets were taken from her purse which was on the floor behind her chair.
Friday, Nov. 18
2 p.m.
A student reported he left his laptop in a classroom on the second floor of Dodge Hall. His professor found it after class and the laptop was returned to him.
10 p.m.
A student reported that while she was having dinner at Qdoba on Huntington Avenue between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m., her wallet was in her bag, which was hanging off the back of the chair. When she got home she discovered her wallet was missing. It contained more than $200 in cash and credit cards that had already been used.
Saturday, Nov. 19
11:30 p.m.
An NUPD officer on Gainsborough Street saw a man drinking from an open container of alcohol. The officer confiscated the container from the 20-year-old Wentworth student. His school has been notified.
Sunday, Nov. 20
12:15 a.m.
A student reported that around 11 p.m. Saturday she was walking on Huntington Avenue near the Prudential Center with her clutch wallet in her hand. A man ran by and shoved her, grabbed the wallet out of her hand and ran. The wallet contained several credit cards and about $400 in cash.
1:30 a.m.
An officer saw a 19-year-old student urinating on Columbus Avenue near Cunard Street. He was reported to OSCCR.
2:30 a.m. – Entry of the Week
An NUPD dispatcher was looking at the TV monitors of NU’s closed circuit security cameras and noticed two men walking along Columbus Avenue. One of the men walked onto the hood of a parked police cruiser and walked along its windshield and on the roof to the back bumper. A police officer went outside as the student was attempting to walk away. The intoxicated 21-year-old student was arrested for malicious destruction since there were several dents and footprints on the car. He was reported to OSCCR.
2:45 a.m.
NUPD officers were called to Smith Hall where they found an 18-year-old student vomiting in the hallway from intoxication. He was taken to a hospital by an ambulance and was reported to OSCCR.
3:30 p.m.
A student reported she left her iPod on the main floor of the Curry Student Center for about an hour between 2 and 3 p.m. When she went back for it, it was gone.
3:45 p.m.
A student reported she couldn’t find her wallet and wasn’t sure where she lost it. She thought it might have been two nights before at Symphony Market, where she may have left it on the counter. It contained credit cards, her license and unused gift cards.
4:30 p.m.
Library staff reported an argument involving some pushing and shoving between a man, who appeared to be about 25, and a student. The argument was over who had the right to use a computer in InfoCommons. The man claimed he was using it, and the woman said she had approached the empty chair, logged him off and then the argument ensued. The man tried to rip the cords out of the computer she was now using, shoved her, and when she went to report the incident the man left. NUPD has not located the man but officers believe he was a visitor in the library.
Monday, Nov. 21
3:30 p.m.
An NUPD detective went to 614 Columbus Ave. to deliver a letter from OSCCR to the student who was arrested the previous week, informing him of a change in his student status. When officers knocked on the door, they encountered the student, his 19-year-old girlfriend and another 19-year-old, both of whom are students, smoking marijuana. The girlfriend was also in the apartment during the robbery. All three students were referred to OSCCR.
11:15 p.m.
The security officer stationed at the Camden/Gainsborough footbridge reported a man approaching pedestrians and being disorderly. Officers responded and found the man, 47-year-old Eric French, who is homeless, and discovered he was wanted on a warrant for public drinking. He was arrested on the Boston District Court warrant.
Tuesday, Nov. 22
1:30 p.m.
A student reported that between 4 and 5 p.m. Nov. 17 while at Panera on Huntington Avenue, her bag containing her laptop was taken from the back of her chair. She previously reported the incident to BPD.
Wednesday, Nov. 23
3 a.m.
A proctor at Davenport Commons B reported an intoxicated man in the lobby. He was identified as a 21-year-old Bentley University student. Officers arranged for a friend to come pick him up and take him home.
Friday, Nov. 25
3:30 p.m.
A person not affiliated with the university reported that while she was eating at Au Bon Pain on Huntington Avenue, she hung her purse over the back of her chair, and it was not there when she finished eating. It contained her cell phone, credit cards and a couple hundred dollars in cash.
Saturday, Nov. 26
3:30 p.m.
A graduate student went to pick up his wallet from NUPD’s lost and found and reported that he was robbed on Huntington Avenue by the Prudential Center the previous night. He reported the incident to BPD as well.
9 p.m.
A female student returning to her room at 780 Columbus Ave. entered her apartment with her parents and luggage and discovered a man inside. He identified himself as the resident assistant (RA) but had no authorization to be there. Her father escorted the 25-year-old RA to the lobby to wait for NUPD officers. After learning he used the ResLife master key to go into her apartment without authorization, he was arrested for burglary. Nothing was missing. He has been removed as an RA and reported to OSCCR.
Sunday, Nov. 27
4:30 p.m.
Four 19-year-old residents of Willis Hall called to report they discovered some property missing from their apartment when they returned from the Thanksgiving break. An iPhone Dock, two Xboxes, a PlayStation, multiple games, an iPad, speakers and a calculator were gone. There was no forced entry into the apartment and NUPD detectives are investigating the theft.
Monday, Nov. 28
10:45 a.m.
The manager at Dunkin’ Donuts in Shillman Hall reported when they opened for business Monday morning, they discovered some cash missing from the store which was closed for the long weekend. NUPD are in possession of video surveillance that is providing good into the theft.
11:30 a.m.
A female graduate student reported she left her laptop out of her sight while working in a lab in the Mugar Life Sciences Building that morning for about an hour, and when she went to look for it, it was missing.
Noon
The manager in Wollastons at the Marino Center reported he apprehended an 18-year-old student for shoplifting. He recognized the student from previous shoplifting incidents, because he had video records, but had not caught him before. The student admitted to shoplifting there on numerous occasions. He was reported to OSCCR and because of his multiple criminal offenses, the manager decided to press charges. The student will be summonsed to Roxbury District Court.
2:45 p.m.
A student reported he locked his bike outside of Stetson West with a cable lock around 1 p.m. Nov. 23. When he returned Monday afternoon, both the bike and cable were gone.
6:45 p.m.
A student reported he locked his bike with a cable outside the library at about 5:30 p.m., and by 6:30 p.m. both the lock and bike were gone.
Tuesday, Nov. 29
1:30 p.m.
An NUPD detective went to White Hall to speak with an 18-year-old student about a previous incident involving drugs, and the detective also confiscated drug paraphernalia and some alcohol. He will be reported to OSCCR.
6 p.m.
Two students went to Downtown Crossing to meet a man one of them recently met. When they met up with him, he asked to use one of the students’ phones, and when she handed him the phone, he ran away with it. They do not know the identity of the man.
7 p.m.
At least two different students called NUPD within moments of each other that both reported they were walking through Krentzman Quad near Ell Hall. They passed by three college-aged males who were asking to borrow their cell phones. Both students said no and immediately called the police. Officers responded and stopped three 20-year-old men who have no university affiliation. All three have criminal records; they were identified, and issued formal permanent all-campus trespass warnings. They will be subject to arrest if they set foot on campus again. They all live within walking distance of campus.
