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Crime Log

by Bobby Mullen, News Correspondent

Tuesday March 9
6:30 p.m.
A Resident Assistant (RA) smelled marijuana in a third floor apartment at 109 St. Stephen St. When Northeastern University Division of Public Safety (NUPD) officers arrived, a resident admitted he was smoking and they confiscated the marijuana was confiscated. The resident will be reported to the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR).

9:30 p.m.
A student reported she left her purse unattended on the second floor of the Curry Student Center for about an hour while she was using a computer. When she returned her purse was gone. It contained $100, credit cards and an iPod.

10:15 p.m.
Officers responded to St. Stephen Street near Speare Hall where a man had fallen due to intoxication. He was being helped by students. He was taken to Boston Medical Center. The man has no university affiliation.

Wednesday, March 10
12:30 a.m.
A caller reported noise in the alley behind 337 Huntington Ave. Responding NUPD officers found six students and smelled marijuana, but no drugs were found. The students had no explanation for being in the alley and were sent away.

7 p.m.
A taxi driver reported he had not been paid for a fare the previous day. He said he had picked up a student downtown and drove the student to his resident hall. The driver and the student exchanged phone numbers, but the driver said the student did not show up for a meeting. Officers found the student, who said the driver did not show up and was prepared to pay the fee. Funds were transferred to the officers who contacted and gave them to the driver.

9 p.m.
Officers were called to the building services office at Ell Hall by a staff member who reported an unauthorized person was rifling through the desk. Responding officers found a man who had been trespassed from the campus, most previously last week. He claimed he was trying to retrieve lost property, but he was trespassing at the time and when he lost the property. Christopher Bouldin, a 23-year-old homeless man from Ohio, was arrested on counts of trespassing, breaking and entering and resisting arrest. He has been banned from campus again.

Thursday, March 11
1:30 p.m.
A detective visited a student in Smith Hall as a follow-up to an ongoing drug investigation. While doing so, the officer discovered a small amount of marijuana hidden in a flashlight. The student admitted it was his and told the officer where he purchased the drugs on campus. He will be reported to OSCCR. The officer then went across the street to Stetson East to interview the student who was identified as his drug dealer. The student admitted she sells drugs frequently on campus, but thought it was legal because she was selling less than an ounce. After arguing about this with the officer, she granted the officer permission to search her room. The officer found a small amount of marijuana, as well as paraphanelia associated with selling and personal use, as well as $330, which she admitted was her proceeds from selling drugs on campus. All of this was confiscated and she was reported to OSCCR. She also provided information on where she buys her drugs, and the investigation will continue.

Friday, March 12
2 a.m.
An officer on St. Stephen Street heard a car speeding up Gainsborough Street. The officer followed as it sped around the corner and crashed into a building on Symphony Road. Pedestrians expressed outrage at the reckless driving. The driver fled, but was caught after a short footrace with officers. The car was not his, and he was arrested for stealing the car. Officers identified him as a Wentworth student, who was intoxicated and stole the Jeep to go on a “joyride.” Wentworth police will be notified, and the owner of the vehicle had his car returned.

3 a.m.
Officers responded to a report of gunshots outside Kennedy Hall. Officers at the scene realized it was firecrackers sent out from a window. Upon entering the room the firecrackers came from, the two residents of Kennedy said there was noise outside and they threw the firecrackers to distract them. Once inside, the officers found a bottle of vodka, 23 beers and a small amount of marijuana. Both will be reported to OSCCR.

12 p.m.
A Residence Director (RD) performing room inspections at Douglass Park called to report confiscating a bong and several bottles of liquor from the room of two residents who were not home. The residents will be interviewed by detectives to find out to whom the bong and liquor belonged to.

3:30 p.m.
A student left his backpack on the fourth floor of Snell Library while he went to the stairs to speak on the phone. He returned to find it missing. There was nothing of value in it, and the backpack was recovered on another part of the fourth floor.

7 p.m.
Boston Police notified NUPD that several Northeastern students had been involved in a fight outside a club downtown the previous night. One student had fractured his jaw. The students were all interviewed after the incident, but the next day did not cooperate with a detective, despite identifying their assailants on Facebook. Boston Police thought this would incite incident on campus, and NUPD is now looking into the matter.

10:30 pm.
An RA called to report a man vomiting in the bathroom of 109 St. Stephen St. He was not a student, and was taken to Boston Medical Center.

Saturday, March 13
1 a.m.
Officers responded to a report of a fight on Symphony Road. Earlier, students had a party in their Douglass Park apartment and several uninvited guests followed invited students into the party. Two of the uninvited guests were seen going into a resident’s bedroom, and the resident entered her room later to find money missing. The uninvited guests were followed to Symphony Road, where they were crashing another apartment party. Officers found the two men on Gainsborough Street, who denied stealing anything. Officers advised residents of both parties it would have been more productive to report the theft to them than go after it themselves.

1 a.m.
An officer saw a young woman in only a shirt and shorts with no shoes running on Columbus Avenue with another female running behind her trying to catch her. The student who was running ahead was intoxicated, while the one trying to catch her was her roommate. The roommate told officers the intoxicated student had ran out of the apartment while she was trying to help her. Officers escorted the two back to their apartment. The intoxicated student was uncooperative with EMTs and will be reported to OSCCR.

1 a.m.
Officers encountered a person vomiting on Hemenway Street. He was visiting a student, and was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

1:30 a.m.
A student was reported vomiting outside Loftman Hall. She admitted to drinking off campus and was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

3 a.m.
A caller reported a fight involing six to ten people on Hemenway Street. Half of the group had left before officers arrived. The remaining students said the group who had left started the fight. No charges were filed.

12 p.m.
A student reported that her former boyfriend, also a student, had been harassing her for about a month. They had broken up after a relationship last summer. She was away for the fall semester and since she has returned she has encountered him twice and has been harassed both times. She said sh was not fearful of him, but wanted him to stop. Officers found him and warned him if he had any more contact with her he would be subject to arrest. He agreed to end contact with her.

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