Northeastern Crime Log
November 1, 2005
By Matt Nielsen
Crime Log entries are selected from Northeastern’s Division of Public Safety reports.
Monday, October 24 1:30 p.m. A 20-year-old female student reported her cell phone was stolen while she attended a football game Oct. 22.
Tuesday, October 25 1 a.m. A 20-year-old female student reported receiving harassing e-mails from an ex-boyfriend, a 23-year-old student. She did not believe the situation was serious, but wanted the police to know.
2:30 p.m. A manager at the Marino Center Wollaston’s detained a 19-year-old male accused of shoplifting. He was allegedly seen putting eye drops in his pocket while shopping. He then allegedly paid for other items, but not the eye drops. When the manager confronted him he said he thought he might get away with it because it was such a small item. He will be reported to the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR).
Wednesday, October 26 7 p.m. A 19-year-old female student reported her purse stolen from an Oct. 23 party at 610 Columbus Ave. Her purse contained IDs and an iPod.
11:30 p.m. Several anonymous callers reported an unconscious 18-year-old female student being carried down Forsyth Street by a group of males. When police responded, the males dropped her and ran, except for one 18-year-old male student who told police they had been at Stetson West drinking vodka in his room. She was transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Both students will be reported to OSCCR.
Thursday, October 27 9 a.m. A Resident Assistant (RA) at 10 Coventry St. discovered a pipe and marijuana during a room inspection. The smoke detector had also been disabled. The residents of the room will be reported to OSCCR.
11:30 a.m. A 20-year-old female student reported her cell phone was stolen from a windowsill in her first floor Douglass Park apartment around 1:30 a.m. She called her phone and made contact with the person who took it, although she reported the person never followed through with plans to return her phone.
Noon An RA performing room inspections at 780 Columbus Ave. found several marijuana joints and pipes. The 20 and 21-year-old female residents of the room will be reported to OSCCR.
1:30 p.m. A 23-year-old female student reported her iPod was stolen during a party in her apartment the previous weekend. She claimed about 20 people were at the party and she did not know all of them.
1:30 p.m. A female staff member leaving a store on Massachusetts Avenue put her purse on top of her car while she put some items into the back seat. As she was doing so, a man walked by and stole the purse.
2 p.m. A 20-year-old male student reported leaving his laptop at the ATM in the Curry Student Center. When he returned it was gone.
Friday, October 28 1 a.m. Staff in Stetson West reported an 18-year-old male student intoxicated and passed out in the hallway, lying in his own vomit. He was transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and will be reported to OSCCR.
8:30 p.m. A 19-year-old female student reported being verbally threatened by her 19-year-old female roommate in a university leased apartment at 42 Symphony Road. She received a restraining order, barring her roommate from having any contact with her. She moved to another room temporarily, and in court on Monday the order was extended for one year. Her roommate will be reported to OSCCR.
11:30 p.m. A Roxbury Community College student attempted to enter an event in the ballroom of the Curry Student Center. While passing through a metal detector he put down a baggy on the counter containing marijuana and cocaine. Jamal Warren, 20, was arrested for possession of both substances.
11:30 p.m. An anonymous caller reported an unconscious man on St. Stephen Street. The 19-year-old male student was transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and will be reported to OSCCR.
Saturday, October 29 1:30 a.m. An RA in Kerr Hall requested police assistance when an 18-year-old female student, who had been taken to her room by friends while intoxicated, was not answering her door. When officers arrived, they found the young woman lying in her own vomit. She was examined by EMTs, who allowed her to stay in bed. She will be reported to OSCCR.
2 a.m. An RA reported an 18-year-old male had been discovered lying in his own vomit on the 12th floor of West Village H. He was transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and will be reported to OSCCR.
2:30 a.m. An RA in the YMCA reported obscenities had been written on most residents’ doors on the sixth and seventh floors.
10:30 p.m. An RA in Speare Hall reported the odor of marijuana on the second floor. Officers responded and found an 18-year-old resident of White Hall who admitted he had been smoking and turned over the marijuana and a pipe. He will be reported to OSCCR. 11 p.m. An RA in Kennedy Hall reported the odor of marijuana. Officers spoke to the three 18-year-old male students present. The two who lived there claimed they had received the marijuana from the third, a resident of another building. They will all be reported to OSCCR.
Sunday, October 30 1 a.m. Officers responded to reports of a loud party on the seventh floor of Douglass Park. When they tried to enter the party a 21-year-old student attempted to keep them out. He became disorderly and pushed officers. John Chaplain was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, assault on a police officer and resisting arrest. As officers were taking him to the police car, they were interfered by another disorderly person, Justin DeWolfe, 21, who struck two officers and was arrested on the same charges. Both will be reported to OSCCR.
1:15 a.m. West Village H was evacuated after the fire alarm sounded. The alarm was set off when someone discharged a fire extinguisher.
8:30 a.m. A fire alarm sounded at the Curry Student Center when a fire extinguisher was discharged in the stairwell.