By Anne Baker
Crime Log entries are selected from Northeastern’s Division of Public Safety reports.
Tuesday, May 6
1 p.m.
A male student reported his backpack missing, with his laptop and his iPhone inside. He had left the bag unattended for five minutes, on the fourth floor of Snell Library, while he went to use the bathroom.
Wednesday, May 7
11 a.m.
The media services staff reported audio/visual equipment missing from a classroom laboratory in Hayden Hall that had been undergoing renovation. They found the equipment missing when the renovation was nearly complete.
1 p.m.
The manager at Wollaston’s in West Village reported that he was detaining a shoplifter. Northeastern University Division of Public Safety (NUPD) identified the person as a female student, and discovered she had taken some food. The manager did not press charges. Instead, the student will be reported to The Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR).
Thursday, May 8
8 p.m.
A man with no affiliation to Northeastern reported his three-speed bicycle stolen after he left it unlocked outside the library for an hour. The man was using the research materials and public documents in the library.
9 p.m.
Two male non-students were caught using the library computers inappropriately. Officers escorted the men outside and issued them trespass warnings.
Monday, May 12
11:30 a.m.
A student reported his bike missing from the fence at Stetson Circle on Hemenway Street where he locked it up the previous morning. He hadn’t realized it was missing until 6 p.m. that day.
12:30 p.m.
A graduate student reported that, during the weekend, her iPod was stolen from an office in Hurtig Hall she shares with several other graduate students. Other valuables in the room were left untouched.
7:30 p.m.
Officers responded to Burstein after a Resident Assistant (RA) caught two male residents smoking marijuana. The officers confiscated a pipe and a small amount of marijuana. The students will be reported to OSCCR.
Wednesday, May 14
7:30 p.m.
A professor reported his bike stolen from the railing in front of the Dana Building between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. The cable he locked it with had been cut.
Thursday, May 15
3:30 p.m.
A student reported his bike stolen from outside his St. Stephen Street apartment. He had locked it up with a cable on Sunday, and noticed it missing four days later.
8 p.m.
Two phone calls were made, one to NUPD and one to 911, to report two young non-students with bolt cutters trying to steal a bike outside the Marino Center. NUPD officers detained the suspects. When Boston Police arrived, they found a bicycle with a partially cut cable and bolt cutters in nearby bushes. Boston Police took the two suspects into custody after issuing trespass warrants, and left a note on the bicycle.
Friday, May 16
9 a.m.
A staff member from the Curry Student Center reported three disorderly young males in the building. The boys left the building when they realized staff had made the call, but NUPD stopped them outside. The young men identified themselves, and officers confirmed they were students at a local public high school. They apologized and were released, but because of the derogatory manner in which they treated staff, they were issued trespass warnings. The principal of their high school contacted NUPD Monday morning for more details on the incident, and planned to issue a disciplinary hearing later that day.
Noon
NUPD assisted Boston police who responded to two calls that a couple of young boys walking through South West Corridor Park between Camden Street and the Massachusetts Avenue T station were threatening passers-by with what appeared to be handguns. First, they walked up to a man walking his dog and held the handgun to his head, then walked a little further before putting the handgun to the head of a homeless man and pulling the trigger a couple of times. The item turned out to be a cap gun. Police arrested the two young people and confiscated the replica guns.
Sunday, May 18
12:30 a.m.
A RA from 780 Columbus Ave. requested police assistance after she responded to a noise complaint on the third floor. When the door to the apartment opened, the RA was greeted by six people – four students and two visitors. The apartment smelled of marijuana. The resident told officers that two people had been smoking marijuana at some point, but she had asked them to leave. At the time, there was no evidence of additional drugs in the apartment. Everyone in the apartment, including the resident, claimed they didn’t know the two people in question, but when officers checked the proctor sign-in sheet, they found the resident had signed them in and they were roommates of two of the other guests. They will all be reported to OSCCR.
2 a.m.
A male student was looking out the window of his Hemenway Street apartment as a group of people walked by and saw one of the men bash his windshield with an empty beerball box from the sidewalk. The student went outside and followed the group at a distance. He watched them sign into West Village H. He then asked the proctor to take note of their apartment number and called 911 to report the incident. He was referred to NUPD. Officers visited the apartment, and a 21-year-old male student admitted that he had tossed the box into the windshield after a night of drinking with his friends. There were some scratches on the windshield, but it was not shattered, and the owner chose not to press criminal charges. Instead, the other student was reported to OSCCR
