Crime Log Entry of the Week
Thursday, Jan. 9 10 p.m.
An officer patrolling Columbus Lot saw a group of young men taking items from the trunk of a car and putting them into backpacks. Once the students went on their way, the officer stopped and questioned them. The students admitted that their was beer in the backpacks, but they claimed to be 21. One of the students produced a fake ID. After further questioning the officer learned that the students were not 21. The three 19-year-olds and two 20-year-olds will be referred to OSCCR, and the student who produced the fake ID will be referred to the proper state authorities. The 101 cans of beer were confiscated along with the fake ID.
Tuesday, Jan. 7 12:30 p.m. The manager of Wollaston’s in the Marino Center called to report a 40-year-old man shoplifting health and beauty aides. The man fled before officers arrived.
Wednesday, Jan. 8 10 a.m. A student reported his cell phone missing after he left it unattended on the ground floor of the student center. It was taken on Jan. 6.
3 p.m. The manager of Wollaston’s in the Marino Center reported a male student had shoplifted a juice drink. The student will be referred to The Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR), and banned from the store.
7:30 p.m. A female staff member reported her purse stolen from the kitchenette in her suite-style office in the Dodge Building. She had left it unattended for about a half hour. Once police questioned people in the area, it was found that three male juveniles had been seen in the area earlier. The purse contained several credit cards and a cell phone.
8:15 p.m. A 20-year-old male student in Speare Hall reported $250 and several credit cards missing from his desk. His credit card company had called to tell him that someone had tried to make a large purchase the previous day. When he went to check for his card, he noticed the other items were missing. The student admitted that he always leaves his door unlocked for people to borrow things.
11:30 p.m. A male student in Speare Hall returned to his room to find $175 missing from his wallet in his desk. His roommate told him that he had returned to the room earlier to find a stranger in the room looking for his roommate who was not home. Another male student in Speare Hall reported he also found a stranger in his room earlier in the day looking through CDs.
Thursday, Jan. 9 5 p.m. A male student in the Marino Center reported $1,000 in jewelry and $200 missing from his locker. He believes he may have left the locker unlocked.
7 p.m. A female student and employee at a retail store in the Marino Center reported a credit card and $20 missing from her wallet she kept in the back room.
11:30 p.m. An RA in Stetson West reported the odor of marijuana on the first floor. The RA and an officer knocked on the door and were let in by three 18-year-old male students, a 19-year-old male student, a 19-year-old male visitor, and a 18-year-old male visitor. When questioned about the use of marijuana, no one said anything. An officer spoke to one of the residents in the hallway and he admitted that there was marijuana and alcohol use going on. The two went back into the room where the rest of the students admitted that the 19-year-old guest had brought the beer, and the 18-year-old guest had brought the marijuana. The students will be referred to OSCCR.
Friday, Jan. 10 3 a.m. A caller reported someone giving an RA a hard time in Stetson East. An officer arrived to find the RA in the hallway arguing with someone. The man then struck the RA. A male student then tried to break up the two and he was also struck by the man. The officer then tried to grab the man, and she was also struck. The man, Carlos Hernandez, 20, of Dorchester, was arrested for the assault of three people, one of whom is an officer. He has no connection to NU. The incident had been a result of several students telling the RA that a strange person was wondering around the hallways. The RA had found the man and the situation erupted. The man was signed in with several other men by a female resident who did not know them and just let them into the building. She will be referred to OSCCR for abusing the sign in policy.
11:30 a.m. Staff in Burstein Hall reported vandalism in the elevators.
4:30 p.m. A professor reported the theft of his laptop that he had left unattended in his office in Lake Hall earlier in the day.
Saturday, Jan. 11 12:30 a.m. Boston Police requested assistance to 11 Vancouver St. where a caller had reported a loud party in a building owned by the Gamma Phi Kappa Alumni Association. The building was occupied by several NU students who rented out rooms from the fraternity. Boston Police were first barred from entering by the person who answered the door. Police were able to gain access to the building and noticed that they were all under 21. Officers questioned several people from the house and discovered that the people who lived there had been charging $5 at the door where party-goers were given a cup and told they could drink all they wanted from two kegs, even though they were not asked for ID. The Alumni Association, fraternity officers and people who live in the house may all face criminal charges. The house was also found by Boston Police to be in such disarray that the Boston building inspector was called. The inspector found several broken lights, and inadequate fire safety conditions. As of right now all of the utilities for the house have been shut off and the building has been considered uninhabitable. All the students will be referred to OSCCR. Boston Police identified at least four people who were present that lived in the house.
5 p.m. Staff in Davenport A reported two holes in the corridor walls, one on the third floor and one on the sixth floor.
6:30 p.m. A woman attending a wellness session in the student center reported that she had brought all of her massage equipment down to the lower level, and then gone to get her car. When she returned, her equipment was gone.
Sunday, Jan. 12 3:30 a.m. A caller reported a loud party at 650 Columbus Ave. Officers responded to the party on the fourth floor where Boston police had already arrested a man, who goes to school in Worcester, for disorderly conduct. The three other male students who hosted the party will be referred to OSCCR.
10 a.m. A female student in West Campus C reported that her wallet had fallen out of her purse the previous day. She believed it to be somewhere in the building. It turned up in lost and found but was missing $60.
Noon A male student reported two tires slashed on his car parked in Columbus Lot. The previous night he had gotten into an argument with a group of men over his parking place. Another person had called the police and an officer had responded. The two parties worked out their problem and the student was allowed to take the space. He believed the men from the car to be responsible for the vandalism done to his tires. The car which they were in was not registered in the university but the owner will be contacted. This matter is still under investigation.
Monday, Jan. 13 Noon A male law student reported that he had left his laptop overnight in the law library and when he returned at 8:30 a.m., it was missing.
1 p.m. A female student reported that she had left her laptop overnight in the architecture portion of Ruggles at her assigned station. When she returned to retrieve it, it was missing.
4 p.m. A female student in Speare Hall reported several personal items missing from her room. She believes that her roommate is to blame. Res Life has already been involved in trying to get a room switch for her.
