Wednesday, July 30
11:45 a.m.
A graduate student reported the theft of his laptop, which he had left in an unlocked room in the Egan Center used by graduate students as a lunch room.
4 p.m.
A student reported her pocketbook missing after she had put it down on the grass outside the Columbus Avenue parking lot and left it unattended for about 15 minutes. When she couldn’t find it, a passerby said he had seen a passerby walking by take it a few minutes earlier.
6:15 p.m.
A faculty member discovered the window broken in her car, which was parked in the West Village Parking Garage. The glove box was found open, and her GPS was tampered with. Though the attempt to steal the GPS was unsuccessful, it was damaged.
Tuesday, July 31
9:30 a.m.
A member of the Marino Center staff reported that a student had reported to one of their staff members that a male had been acting in a lewd and lascivious manner in the men’s sauna the previous night. The sign in records were checked and the man was identified as a law school student who was questioned later that day. He will be reported to the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR).
Friday, August 1
1 p.m.
A student reported his bike, which he had locked outside the Stearns Building, missing. The cable he had locked it with was also missing.
6:15 p.m.
Two female students reported that two laptops and a digital camera were taken from their private apartment on Symphony Road, which they found burglarized.
Monday, August 4
3:30 p.m.
An NUPD officer on Huntington Avenue was flagged down by a student who said he had just seen a man go in an open window on the ground floor of the residence hall at 407 Huntington Ave. and come out with a laptop. The officer approached the man, who dropped the laptop into a trash can and ran away. He was pursued into Snell Library Quad where he resisted arrest. The man was identified as Bryant Green of Roxbury. He has no affiliation with the university. He was taken into custody and charged with burglary and resisting arrest, as well as assault, for spitting at officers on his way to jail. He will be arraigned in Roxbury District Court.
8:30 p.m.
A student reported $300 stolen from him after he had gone to the Massachusetts Avenue T Station to use the ATM to withdraw cash. After the withdrawal, he walked inbound along the Southwest Corridor Park toward his apartment on the other side of Massachusetts Avenue, and as he approached his apartment, a man asked him if he could use his cell phone. The student allowed the stranger to use his phone, and when he handed the phone back he displayed a knife and demanded money. The student gave him the money, and was uninjured.
Tuesday, August 5
10:30 p.m.
A student reported his bike had been stolen from the bike rack in front of Hayden Hall where he had locked it earlier with a cable lock, which had also been taken.
Wednesday, August 6
2 a.m.
An NUPD officer saw and approached a young woman stumbling along T tracks, apparently intoxicated. She was uncooperative and would not identify herself. She said she had been drinking off campus with friends. Officers eventually learned she was a 19-year-old student, and she was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center by ambulance for evaluation.
9 a.m.
A staff member in the office of the first floor at Renaissance Park reported leaving her office unattended for five minutes and when she came back her handbag, which had been under her desk in the reception office, was missing. Video surveillance showed a man walking into the office and walking out with the bag.
11 a.m.
A student reported his iPod missing from his office in the Curry Student Center, which he had left for a few minutes. The only other people using the office were four high school students. They were questioned, and a 14-year-old admitted stealing the iPod, which was returned to its owner. The director of the summer program was notified and said they will take appropriate action.
4 p.m.
A student reported her cell phone missing after she had left it unattended at the food court in the Curry Student Center.
6:30 p.m.
A student reported her purse missing after leaving it in a classroom on the first floor of Dodge Hall. The purse contained her ATM card and driver’s license.
8 p.m.
A staff member in the College of Computer Science reported a backpack containing her laptop missing after leaving her office for about five minutes.
Thursday, August 7
11 p.m.
The proctor at Davenport B reported suspecting a party in a third floor apartment. NUPD officers went upstairs and heard a lot of noise coming from an apartment on the third floor. The officers knocked on the door and were greeted by a resident who is a 20-year-old student. There was evidence on the tables inside the apartment of drinking games. The resident was asked to gather everyone at the party into the living room. Sixteen more people came out of the bedroom. In total there were nine males, seven under the age of 21, and eight females, all under the age of 21. One 20-year-old resident claimed she bought the beer ball at a liquor store that never checks IDs. One female claimed to be an out of state visitor, but all 17 were students and the 15 under 21 will be reported to OSCCR. The two over 21 cannot be sanctioned, and will have their names in the report presented to OSCCR. There was no indication the two older than 21 supplied the alcohol.
Friday, August 8
2 p.m.
Staff at the Marino Center reported a student had entered Marino without signing in. The student was known to the staff because he works part-time at Marino. He walked in and got another proctor to let him in without his ID. When the staff discovered he had violated the rules they told him he had to leave. He got upset and threw a cup of ice water at a member of the staff, who immediately terminated him from his part time job. He will be reported to OSCCR, and is in the meantime banned from using the Marino Center.
8:30 p.m.
An NUPD officer saw a man exit Huntington Liquors, walk down the street toward Hemenway Street and pass a bag containing a 24-pack of beer and a liter of rum to a second man. The two walked down the street together, and were stopped and asked their ages. The person who had bought the alcohol was a 21-year-old student, and the person he had given the alcohol to was 20 years old. They will both be reported to OSCCR, and the 21-year-old will be summonsed to court and charged with giving alcohol to a minor.
9:30 p.m.
One of the officers who was at Davenport B the previous night for the party noticed a female walking on Huntington Avenue who had identified herself at the party the night before as a non-student visiting from Connecticut. She had said she had no ID on her. When asked the next night, she again said she didn’t have any ID. When pressed, she turned over identification in the form of credit cards and a license that did not match the name she had given the night before. She said she was holding the cards for a friend she had gone shopping with. When pressed about her real identity again, it was found she was a student and had given her real name the night before, but had lied about where she was from and about not being a student. The officers contacted the owner of the license and credit cards, a student, who said she had her purse stolen a month ago at Our House East. She denied loaning her IDs to any friend, and she subsequently informed officers that she had received a message on Facebook from the student who had lied about her identity. The message on Facebook had asked the ID owner to lie to officers and say that she knew the girl who had the cards taken away. The original violator will be reported to OSCCR for a number of violations and will be criminally charged with receiving stolen property, and possibly intimidating a witness.
11 p.m.
A graduate student reported leaving her backpack unattended several times earlier that afternoon at the library, and later in the evening realized it was missing. It contained her cell phone and credit cards. She found her credit cards had been used multiple times around the city when she called her credit card companies to cancel them.
Sunday, August 8
Noon
A student reported receiving numerous harassing text messages from her ex-boyfriend, who is not a student. They both live in New York. He was telling her in the texts that he was going to come to Boston to be with her, something she did not want to happen. NUPD will be working with her and police in her hometown on the situation.
6 p.m.
Residence hall staff in Davenport B requested assistance after they detected a strong odor of marijuana coming through the air conditioning ventilation system. The staff and an officer were able to follow the scent to an apartment on the first floor. They knocked on the door and discovered a resident with a bag of marijuana on the table and a couple of pipes, as well as a spear gun. When asked if he had any other paraphernalia, he turned over some more marijuana and another pipe. He will be reported to OSCCR.
7 p.m.
A female alumnus who was visiting a student on campus reported that her car, which was parked on Parker Street, had been broken into. The window was broken and her GPS was stolen off her dashboard.
Monday, August 9
2:15 a.m.
An NUPD officer observed a robbery taking place on Huntington Avenue near Longwood Avenue, several blocks off campus. The officer witnessed four men robbing a man who was alone. The person who was robbed is a student who lives on Mission Hill. The four robbers fled on foot, but were pursued and apprehended nearby. The student had been knocked to the ground and had a cut on the back of his head, which he was treated for on the scene, and declined to go to the hospital. The four people arrested were Wei Lyum Huang, 19, of Mission Hill; Chen Biao, 17, of South Boston; Michael July-Flores, 18, of Dorchester; and Michael Luong, 17, of South Boston.
