Compiled by Anna Glina, News Correspondent
Tuesday, Jan. 24
10 a.m.
A graduate student reported her wallet was stolen from an office on the fourth floor of Snell Engineering Center between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. the previous day. The door of her office, which a number of graduate students share, was propped open, and the room was periodically unattended. The wallet contained several credit cards and the student’s drivers license.
1:30 p.m.
A student reported he lost his wallet somewhere on campus over the weekend. It held his IDs, Husky Card and about $10 in cash.
2 p.m.
A student reported her headphones were stolen from her backpack, which she hung behind her chair in Snell Library Sunday between 2 and 7:30 p.m.
A woman who is not affiliated with the university reported she was talking on her cell phone on the Massachusetts Avenue T stop platform when a young man grabbed from her hand and ran. She started chasing him, but couldn’t catch up. She reported the incident to a Northeastern security officer and Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) police have assumed jurisdiction.
10:15 p.m.
A student reported he left his laptop on the desk in his room in Davenport Commons A the previous evening, went away for the night and discovered it missing the following evening. His roommates were in the apartment throughout the night, but left the door periodically propped open. Northeastern University Division of Public Safety (NUPD) detectives are in the process of interviewing the roommates, at least one of whom had guests in the apartment during the time the laptop went missing.
Wednesday, Jan. 25
1 a.m.
A student was arguing with his girlfriend, also a student, on Columbus Avenue. After receiving separate reports, both the NUPD and the Boston Police Department (BPD) sent officers in response. The student was taken into custody for assault, and was reported to the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR).
3:30 p.m.
A student reported a digital camera went missing from her apartment in Davenport Commons A at some point between Jan. 7 and 13. She spent the next week asking her friends and looking around for it, assuming she misplaced it, but after searching unsuccessfully reported it to police. NUPD detectives are investigating the incident.
5 p.m.
A student reported $40 missing from a desk in her room on the 21st floor of International Village (INV). NUPD detectives are investigating.
5:30 p.m.
A student reported three teenagers in Curry Student Center distracted her and stole her iPhone from the table in front of her. They asked her for the time and talked to her while one grabbed the phone and ran from the building. The student chased them to the street behind Snell Library, where she lost them. NUPD has security camera footage showing the three running toward the Ruggles station, and the investigation is ongoing.
Thursday, Jan. 26
4:30 p.m.
A student reported he left his iPad on a counter in the Curry Student Center game room for about 10 minutes. When he returned, it was gone.
9:15 p.m.
A student reported he left his $425 Montblanc pen on a table at Curry Student Center between 5 and 7 p.m., and returned to find it missing.
Friday, Jan. 27
1 a.m.
A caller reported a 20-year-old student was unconscious in a corridor on the fourth floor of Davenport Commons A. She was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center by ambulance, and reported to OSCCR. A Davenport Commons A resident who signed the student in using the guest’s fake ID will also be reported to OSCCR.
10:30 a.m.
A student reported he left a necklace on a bench in the men’s locker room in the Marino Center Jan. 19 around 1:30 p.m. He spent the next week talking to employees in the Marino Center, hoping it would be turned in to the lost and found. The necklace, a men’s silver chain, is a sentimental family heirloom. Anyone with information about its whereabouts can call NUPD at 617-373-2121.
3 p.m.
A student reported her MacBook was missing from her backpack, which was hanging over the back of the chair while she ate at Qdoba on Huntington Avenue.
6 p.m.
A student reported two young men, one of whom was holding a knife, approached him between the Snell Engineering Center and Egan Research Center. They asked him for money, the student screamed and they ran away. BPD officers stopped a suspect, a 17-year-old with a knife, a few blocks away, but the student could not positively identify him and he was let go.
6:30 p.m.
Two roommates in West Village C reported having ongoing problems with their other two roommates, who posted insulting statements about them online. The Department of Housing and Residential Life (ResLife), which worked with the students in this apartment in the past, moved two of the residents to another apartment for the weekend. ResLife is mediating between the two parties.
11:30 p.m.
A student reported he left his wallet in the INV dining hall around 9 p.m. He went back for it just before the dining hall closed at 9 p.m. It was turned into the lost and found, but was missing $40. Dining hall staff members could not identify who turned it in.
Saturday, Jan. 28
12:15 a.m.
An officer saw one of the Facilities Division vehicles, a registered mini-pick-up truck, driving down the sidewalk on Columbus Avenue. Since facilities vehicles are not typically on duty at that hour, the officer stopped the car. He found two students, one of whom worked part time for facilities. The student claimed he had had permission to use the vehicle, but he did not, and was using it to pick up a pizza order. Both students were reported to OSCCR, but the university will not press charges.
2 a.m.
A 19-year-old student in 780 Columbus called asking for medical evaluation because she had too much to drink and was very ill. She said she consumed wine, vodka and rum. She was evaluated by officers and EMTs, who determined she did not need hospitalization. She was reported to OSCCR.
7 a.m.
A proctor at Speare Hall reported a man sleeping on the couch in the lobby. Officers found a man with no affiliation to the university, escorted him off campus and issued him a trespass warning.
Sunday, Jan. 29
1 a.m.
A proctor at INV reported a group of students carrying a student who appeared intoxicated into the building. The proctor recorded the name and room number of the individual. Responding officers and EMTs discovered the student, a 19-year-old male, did not need hospitalization. He was allowed to stay in the dorm, and was reported to OSCCR.
4 a.m.
Officers found a fake ID in a wallet that was turned in to the lost and found. The owner of the wallet, a 20-year-old student, was reported to OSCCR.
5:30 a.m.
A member of the custodial staff put his coat down on a chair in the lobby of Stetson East while moving equipment. When he returned 10 minutes later, the coat was gone. Later in the day, a person turned the coat in to the proctor. The person reportedly believed the coat belonged to a friend and took it in an attempt to prank him.
2 p.m.
Officers saw three people sharing marijuana at the edge of the bushes in the Fenway behind the Museum of Fine Arts. The three were determined to be Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS) students, and were turned over to the MCPHS Department of Public Safety.
Monday, Jan. 30
A report from Ski Country in Killington, Vt., said more than 20 Northeastern students, most of whom were underage, were drinking at a party in a motel over the weekend. All the underaged drinkers were issued Vermont drinking citations, which could result in fines of several hundred dollars per person and revocation of drivers licenses. All the students were reported to OSCCR.
9:15 a.m.
A manager at Wollaston’s in the Marino Center reported detaining a student who stole cold medications valued at about $30. The student was banned from both Wollaston’s locations and reported to OSCCR.
9:45 a.m.
A staff member from an office in West Village H reported personal items missing from his desk. He said he believes the theft may have occurred earlier this month.
11:30 a.m.
A student reported she left her coat in the Curry Student Center West Addition at about 10:15 a.m., and went to another part of the student center for about half an hour. When she returned, the $400 coat was gone. NUPD detectives are reviewing video footage from the area.
2:30 p.m.
A staff member reported his wallet was stolen from an office on the fourth floor of Hurtig Hall between during the day. He left the office at various times during the day, and left the door unlocked. The wallet contained credit cards and about $50 in cash.
4:30 p.m.
A student reported he signed out an expensive video camera from the university to use for a project, and left it under his chair after class in Hayden Hall. When he returned two hours later, it was gone. Another student saw it unattended and turned it in later in the evening.
7:30 p.m.
Detectives went to a St. Stephen Street dorm to visit the student who was found wearing only his underwear under the influence of ecstacy in the lobby of a building the previous week. The student was walking out the door just as officers were walking in. At first, he said he did not have the time to speak with officers, and appeared nervous and fidgety. He tried to say he was meeting with a professor, but was not able to provide a name. Finally, he said he was nervous because he had marijuana in his pocket. Police confiscated the marijuana and paraphernalia, along with several knives. Some of the knives were legal, though against housing policy, but one was illegal to possess in Massachusetts and considered a dangerous weapon. The 19-year-old student was reported to OSCCR for possession of drugs, possession of unauthorized weapons in a residence hall and the illegal knife.