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The Huntington News

Northeastern Crime Log

By Kaitlin Thaney

Crime Log Entry of the Week

Sunday, Feb. 9 3 a.m.

A group was reported arguing in the back alley behind Smith Hall. Officers responded and the group disbanded. Soon after an, 18-year-old male student in Smith called to report his door being sprayed by a fire extinguisher. When he confronted the person with the extinguisher, an argument arose with pushing and shoving. The 18-year-old student that was allegedly spraying the door was not a resident of Smith. The student when questioned said that he took the fire extinguisher in defense after being coated himself. The students will be referred to OSCCR.

Tuesday, Feb. 4 Noon A roommate dispute was reported in an apartment on 144 Hemenway St. The 21- year-old female student who reported the incident said that the argument was over her 21-year-old female roommate eating her food and not cleaning up the apartment.

2 p.m. A female staff member reported her wallet missing after she was eating lunch in the Marino Center food court. Her purse was hanging over a chair. When she went to cancel her credit cards she was informed that her ATM account had already been accessed and $200 had been withdrawn.

4 p.m. A female staff member in Dockser Hall reported her wallet missing after leaving her office unattended and unlocked for approximately fifteen minutes. She discovered her wallet missing when she was preparing to leave for the day. In her wallet was her license, $12 in cash, and credit cards.

7 p.m. Staff in the Snell Engineering Building reported three juveniles running around the second floor of the building. Police located two 13-year-olds and one 14-year-old who said that they participating in an after-school tutoring program on campus. The tutoring program was not in session when the kids were on campus. They now may only come on campus during program hours.

Wednesday, Feb. 5 2 a.m. Fisher College Police called to report an incident where a female student at Fisher and her boyfriend, a Northeastern student, were in an altercation. The female student said that her boyfriend had become disorderly but there was no physical assault involved. The male NU student then left campus where he was located by campus police. The student lives in Stetson East and is banned from the Fisher campus. The woman will not press charges. The Northeastern student was reported in last week’s Crime Log as breaking a mirror in Stetson East after an argument with his girlfriend. He will be referred to the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR). 3:30 p.m. Northeastern police arrested Joseph Turner, a 48-year-old former Northeastern student. At the time of the arrest, Turner was using an Internet terminal in Snell Library. NUPD had been contacted by police in Georgia where he is wanted for theft involved with a financial fraud scheme. The Georgia police had reason to suspect that he was at Northeastern. There was a fugitive warrant for his arrest. Turner is being held on outstanding cash bail before returning to Georgia for prosecution.

4 p.m. Laurie Turner, the 44-year-old wife of Joseph Turner, was arrested on similar charges dealing with finances. She is a current graduate student and does not live on campus.

5:30 p.m. A 20-year-old male student reported his Husky Card stolen. He was not sure as to his whereabouts when the card was lost. He believes that it was lost earlier this month. When the student went to replace the card he was told that the previous night $40 had been used on his card in vending machines around campus.

10 p.m. A 22-year-old male graduate student reported his license plate missing from his vehicle that had been parked in the Columbus Lot. The car had been in the lot since approximately 2 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 6 11 a.m. An RA at 319 Huntington Ave. was running routine building inspections when a bong was discovered in an apartment. The 19-year-old male resident admitted it was his property and that he used to use it to smoke marijuana, but now it serves as a decoration. The student will be referred to OSCCR.

4 p.m. A 20-year-old male student reported being assaulted by his roommate in West Campus C. He reports that the two of them used to get along but a couple of weeks ago the relationship turned sour and arguments ensued. At 8 p.m. on the previous night he says that his roommate grabbed him, pushed him, and threatened to beat him up. The 20-year-old resident did not want to press charges but rather to have a mediation meeting with ResLife. The other roommate was relocated that night and told not to return to the building.

4:30 p.m. A 23-year-old male student was studying on the third floor of Dodge Hall when he left his bookbag, cell phone, and laptop unattended for around 20 minutes. When he returned he found his laptop missing, along with two calculators and his cell phone.

8 p.m. Residential Staff at 110 St. Stephen St. found a bong in a room. One roommate was home and when questioned said it was not his. The other roommate had recently moved to an off-campus apartment and has not returned calls from the NUPD for the past several days. That student will be referred to OSCCR.

Friday, Feb. 7 3 a.m. Vandalism was reported in Smith Hall in the second floor corridor. Ceiling tiles were damaged and the water fountain was ripped off the wall.

6:30 p.m. A female student went to pick up her wallet, which had been turned in to the lost and found, and found $25 in cash missing. The wallet was lost near Opera Place several days earlier.

9:30 p.m. Officers responded to Forsyth Street on a call reporting a man was assaulting a woman. Both the man and the woman were Wentworth students and said to be in a relationship. The woman did not want to press charges and no physical assault was reported. The man, Jasybe Snape, was arrested on a default warrant for failure to pay fines for a theft. This information was discovered when interviewing 22-year-old Snape.

Saturday. Feb. 8 2 a.m. A 19-year-old female student in West Campus A called to report her cell phone missing which had been on the kitchen table in her apartment as of 11 p.m. the previous night. Her roommates had had several guests in the apartment during that time.

2:20 a.m. Staff in Stetson West reported vandalism in the third floor men’s bathroom. The soap dispensers were destroyed and a mirror was broken.

5 a.m. Vandalism was reported in Smith Hall in the second floor women’s bathroom. The shower curtains had been removed from the rods and stuffed into the toilets.

6 a.m. An 18-year-old female resident of Melvin Hall was reportedly passed out due to alcohol consumption. She was taken to the hospital with an apparent drug/alcohol overdose.

4 p.m. A 19-year-old female resident of White Hall reported two harassing phone calls made to her room from a female who seemed to know her.

Sunday, Feb. 9 1 a.m. Residential Staff in Stetson East reported vandalism in the first floor men’s room. Soap dispensers were missing and a toilet was shattered by what appears to have been a baseball bat.

4 a.m. Another argument in Smith Hall was reported on the second floor involving most of the same people that were involved in the previous argument in the alley. One student was uncooperative with the police and began yelling and screaming and tried to push past the officer to continue the argument. The 18-year-old male student, Paul Oristaglio, was arrested for disorderly conduct. Oristaglio is a resident of Smith Hall.

8 a.m. Elevator lights were reported to be broken in West Campus B.

8 a.m. Officers responded to an alarm that was triggered by tampering with the computer and audio-visual equipment in a classroom at Dodge Hall. The officers discovered two men on the first floor. They were questioned and were not Northeastern students, but students at another college in Boston. They said that they had been stranded by a ride the previous night and had slept in the lobby of Dodge overnight. Another officer reported to the classroom and found a computer stolen in which the alarm wiring had been ripped off, triggering the alarm.

3 p.m. Graffiti was discovered in the corridor on the fourth floor on Davenport B.

11:30 p.m. A 22-year-old female student had been away the previous evening and returned to find her bicycle missing from her apartment. The bicycle had been stored in the corridor of the apartment.The student has several roommates who had guests in the apartment in West Campus A over night. There was no sign of forced entry.

Monday, Feb. 10 9:30 a.m. A 19-year-old male student reported leaving his backpack last Friday at 1 p.m. in the Curry Student Center. When he returned it was gone.

10 a.m. A 26-year-old female student reported her cell phone missing from Jan. 31 from the third floor lounge of Dodge Hall.

5 p.m. Graffiti was reported in Churchill Hall on the mirrors in the second floor men’s room.

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