By By Tara Turner, News Correspondent
Crime Log entries are selected from Northeastern’s Division of Public Safety reports.
Wednesday, February 25
1:30 p.m.
A student reported his backpack missing after he left it under a chair in the Curry Student Center Ballroom for a few minutes while he made a presentation in the room. It contained books.
6 p.m.
A student reported his laptop missing after he left it in a room in the Egan Research Center that is shared by about 30 graduate students.
6:30 p.m.
A student reported she had paid for a $200 cell phone on Craigslist using Western Union but never received the phone. The Northeastern University Division of Public Safety (NUPD) is attempting to trace the Craigslist seller.
Thursday, February 26
3 p.m.
A Resident Assistant conducting pre-announced inspections at 103 St. Stephen St. smelled marijuana coming from an apartment and called NUPD. Officers spoke with two male residents who admitted to having smoked marijuana. They will be reported to the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR).
4 p.m.
A girl was reported to OSCCR by NUPD for failing to identify her boyfriend who had been in her apartment when $450 of her roommate’s money went missing, as reported in a previous crime log entry. She eventually agreed to identify him and told police she had broken up with him after the incident. He is not a student. Police set up meetings with him but he has failed to show up for questioning. He has also been banned from campus.
5 p.m.
An anonymous caller reported the odor of marijuana coming from a first floor apartment at 337 Huntington Ave. The officer followed the scent to an apartment where the student who lived there admitted to smoking and turned over less than an ounce of marijuana. He will be reported to OSCCR.
Wednesday, March 4
9:30 p.m.
A student reported his car was broken into on Parker Street outside West Village. A handful of change had been stolen.
Thursday, March 5
2 p.m.
An officer observed a young male walking a bicycle down Forsyth Street towards Ruggles Station. When he saw the officer, he dropped the bike and ran into the T station. NUPD currently has the bike but no one has claimed it.
3:30 p.m.
NUPD had a car towed from the Columbus Parking Lot for having a forged parking sticker. The owner of the car, an alumnus, photoshopped his parking pass from last year to avoid paying for parking this year.
9 p.m.
NUPD officers were looking through a wallet that had been turned into lost and found in an attempt to identify the owner when they found a fake ID. The 19-year-old female student who owns the wallet will be reported to OSCCR and to the state for having a fake ID.
Saturday, March 7
9 p.m.
A caller walking on Symphony Road reported that he had seen four men with guns in an alley. He told police he believed they were toy guns. Officers stopped two Berklee College of Music students and identified the guns as fake.
Monday, March 9
2 p.m.
A staff member in Cargill Hall reported she left her office for a few minutes and encountered a man in her office when she returned. She asked him why he was there and he fled. She looked in her purse and found her wallet missing. It contained credit cards and $100.
5 p.m.
A staff member in Nightingale Hall reported her wallet and iPod missing after she left her office unattended from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Her wallet contained credit cards and a T pass.
8 p.m.
A student reported his wallet missing several minutes after entering Snell Library. He had just used his identification to gain entry into the library when he couldn’t find it. It contained a T pass, credit cards and $40.
8 p.m.
A student reported her laptop missing. She was not sure if she left it in her class in Behrakis Health Sciences Center or if it was stolen from her backpack in Snell Library. while she used a copy machine.
