By Kaitlin Thaney
Crime Log Entry of the Week
Monday, March 24 4 p.m.
NUPD confiscated 90 cans of beer and 12 bottles of liquor from three 19-year-old male students from Stetson East. A student notified an RA in the building after seeing the students getting out of a car with boxes of alcoholic beverages. The RA stopped the three males at the Community Receptionist desk. $175 worth of alcohol was confiscated and all of the students will be referred to OSCCR. Tuesday, March 11 5:30 p.m. A female student reported her wallet stolen after leaving it unattended in Snell Library for approximately an hour. The wallet was later found in the women’s room on the fourth floor of the library.
8 p.m. A male resident of Smith Hall reported his DVD player stolen, allegedly three or four days prior to him reporting it. He claimed that his room had been unlocked for approximately an hour during the evening a couple days before.
Wednesday, March 12 10 a.m. A female student said that several prank calls were being placed to her parents and other students’ parents. She suspected two male students, ages 22 and 20. The two male students, who had access to the phone numbers, were interviewed and admitted to placing the calls. The two male students will be referred to the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR).
8 p.m. An 18-year-old female student reported that as she was walking down Huntington Avenue four days earlier, a car pulled over to ask for directions. When she approached the car to help, an occupant of the car grabbed her necklace and her cell phone and sped away.
Thursday, March 13 1 p.m. An Resident Assistant in Speare Hall detected what was thought to be marijuana coming from a first floor room. The 18-year-old male resident admitted to smoking marijuana in the room. He will be referred to OSCCR.
4 p.m. A staff member in an office in Hayden Hall left an office unattended for two hours in the afternoon. The staff member’s wallet was stolen, containing a license, an ATM card, $10 in cash and her cell phone.
4:30 p.m. An RA discovered a keg on the fire escape at 407 Huntington Ave. The 23-year-old student claimed that he did not know that kegs were prohibited from the building. The keg was confiscated and he will be referred to OSCCR.
*Various residence halls during Spring Break intersession were inspected. These standard inspections led to ResLife staff finding bongs and other drug paraphenalia. The occupants of these rooms were referred to OSCCR and the paraphenalia was confiscated. Among the buildings inspected with reported findings of such devices were Smith Hall, Speare Hall, Stetson West and Davenport A.
Sunday, March 16 2:30 a.m. An RA from West Campus E saw people smoking what appeared to be marijuana on the balcony of an apartment in the building. The resident claimed that it was the two UMass guests smoking, not the NU student. The student will be referred to OSCCR.
Tuesday, March 18 10:30 a.m. Northeastern Police arrested Devon Brown, a 21-year-old male not enrolled at Northeastern; Brown was allegedly visitng a student in Davenport B who is said to be a female cousin of his. During Brown’s visit Monday night he allegedly got into an arguement with his cousin and shoved her, along with pushing another roommate in the room. The cousin and the roommate wanted him to leave and they called the NUPD. Brown was gone by the time the police showed up. Upon investigation, it was learned that he was wanted by Cambridge Police on an outstanding warrant for assault and battery. Brown was signed in later that night to Davenport B. The NUPD tracked this and when they asked the alleged cousin if Brown was in the room, she denied it. He was in fact in the room and was arrested. He is banned from the campus.
Monday, March 24 11 a.m. Food service staff discovered their hot dog warmer missing when opening their serving station in Hayden Hall.
Wednesday, March 26 3:30 p.m. A female staff member in Mugar Life Sciences Building left her office unlocked for approximately an hour. When she returned, her wallet was missing and when she called to cancel her credit card, she was told that someone had attempted to use the card earlier. The clerk at the retail establishment denied the card because the signatures on the credit slip and the back of the card did not match. Prior to this, the card was in fact used for several hundred dollar purchases which were not denied.
6 p.m. A staff member in Meserve Hall reported a laptop stolen between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. The lock on the door was malfunctioning.
7:30 p.m. Several members of the male crew team returned to the boathouse after practice to find that six of their wallets had been taken after being left unattended. There was $180 in one, $100 in another, three wallets contained $20 or less and one contained several credit cards and a bank check.
8 p.m. A female student reported that between noon and 6 p.m., someone entered her room and stole $150 and a gold necklace off her desk. Her door was left unlocked.
Thursday, March 27 Noon A female student discovered her wallet missing after leaving it in Snell Library unattended. In the wallet was $200 in cash and credit cards.
Friday, March 28 1 p.m. Two female students who were both 21 years old said that the previous night around 11:30 p.m., they were approached by two men appearing to be homeless and in their 40s. The two students were on their way from Burstein Hall to Davenport Commons and were approached as they reached the rear of the Snell Engineering building. The two men asked for their money without using any force. One of the students yelled and the women got away unabated.
2:30 p.m. A female student left her purse unattended in the lobby of Shillman Hall while in the cyber cafe. Her wallet and purse were stolen, including credit cards, a cell phone and several books.
Saturday, March 29 12:30 a.m. With a large line waiting to get in to afterHOURS, someone pulled the fire alarm. It was said that there were at least 200 people outside. The crowd became disorderly and were not cooperative when the fire rescue team arrived. Following the incident, AfterHOURS closed for the night.
9 p.m. An RA detected the odor of marijuana on the fourth floor of 157 Hemenway St. The RA and an officer approached the suspected room. The 18-year-old female resident acknowledged that the room smelled of the drug and said that it was the other students that were there earlier. The “students” were never identified by the resident and she will be referred to OSCCR.
Sunday, March 30 3 a.m. It was reported that a man was breaking into an apartment on the fourth floor of 97 St. Stephen St. The Boston Police were also notified. The door was broken into. The NUPD and BPD discovered a man who was not a resident in the room and a female resident sleeping. The resident is a female student who had gotten in an argument with her boyfriend, the alleged perpetrator. The boyfriend then came back drunk after losing the key to his apartment and broke into the apartment. Brendan Jones was arrested for malicious destruction. He is a 20-year-old male student and will be referred to OSCCR.
Monday, March 31 8 a.m. Several soap dispensers from the men’s room in the basement of the Knowles Center were reported stolen.
11:15 a.m. A female staff member in Dodge Hall reported that while she was in the women’s bathroom in the building, there was a man standing in the stall, suspected of being homeless. The man left the facility before the woman did and was nowhere to be found in the building.
Noon An officer apprehended three juveniles in the Curry Student Center. Two small knives were confiscated from the juveniles. They are 13 and 14 years-old and attend high schools in the area.
A female resident in Melvin Hall reported that she had been receiving harassing e-mails from some female students. It was believed that the e-mails were because of an ongoing dispute over missing property.
3 p.m. A wallet was stolen from the second floor of Hayden Hall. The office was left unlocked and unattended during lunch. The staff member said that the door was locked but there was no sign of forced entry. $300 in cash and credit cards were missing.
