By Kaitlin Thaney
Crime Log Entry of the Week
Tuesday, April 11 2 a.m.
Campus Police from Lasell College arrested a 19-year-old male Northeastern student. He was initially encountered on Lasell’s campus with mass quantities of alcohol in his possession. Confiscated from him were two beer balls, a 30-pack of beer, two 12-packs of beer, two bottles of vodka, two bottles of rum and two bottles of liqueur. He was told to leave the campus around 8 p.m. the night before. At approximately 1:15 a.m. on Friday, April 11, the same officer saw the student, this time intoxicated. When he was approached by the officer he was uncooperative and became disorderly. He was charged with trespassing and for being a minor in possession of alcohol. He will be referred to OSCCR.
Tuesday, April 8 3 p.m. A female graduate student reported that her credit card had been taken out of her wallet while it was left in an unattended office in Dana Research Center sometime last fall. She believes that the credit card number was written down and the card was put back in her wallet. She discovered that over the past several months, several purchases have been made online with her credit card number. The card is now cancelled.
9 p.m. A female student in 319 Huntington Ave. said that she purchased several magazine subscriptions from someone soliciting in the residence hall they claimed to live in the building, but the student did not recognize the solicitor as a resident. The student saw the same person talking to another resident down the hall. Believing that this was a scam, the student cancelled payment on the subscriptions.
Wednesday, April 9 10 a.m. A 25-year-old female graduate student was observed by the manager of Wollaston’s in the Marino Center shoplifting yogurt. She apparently hid the yogurt, poured a cup of coffee and paid for the coffee alone. When she was leaving she was confronted by the manager and she said that she forgot about having the yogurt. She will be referred to the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR).
Thursday, April 10 10:30 a.m. The Northeastern Police were called to the West Campus construction site where there was a fight involving the construction workers. It resulted in one worker being sent to the hospital after allegedly being punched and kicked. Sean McCarron, a 29-year-old man from Andover was arrested for assault. McCarron was a construction worker at the same site as the assaulted.
11:30 a.m. A student working as a Community Receptionist reported that he left his laptop at the Community Receptionist office for a couple of days in the common area. When the student returned it was missing.
Noon A 20-year-old female student reported that she had left her laundry in the laundry room at 337 Huntington Ave. the previous evening from 7 to 8 p.m. When she returned her laundry was missing.
1:30 p.m. A graduate student reported the mouse to their computer stolen from an office in Nightingale Hall. The office was left unattended for approximately 10 minutes around noon.
2 p.m. A 23-year-old male student reported that two days earlier he left his things unattended on a study table on the fourth floor of Snell Library. He then discovered that two checks were missing from his checkbook. When he called the bank to cancel the checks he found out that one of the checks for $450 and was already cashed.
3 p.m. A student working at WRBB reported leaving his jacket in the outside office of the radio station on April 9 from approximately 5 to 11 p.m. When he returned for it at 11 p.m. he found that it was gone.
7:15 p.m. Northeastern Police responded to calls of an ill woman in the women’s room of the Curry Student Center. Officers discovered an intoxicated 50-year-old woman that worked in a building on campus intoxicated. She was not at work at the time the officers found her. The woman was taken to the hospital.
11:30 p.m. A person showed an I.D. to get into a party in the Curry Ballroom but the photograph did not match or resemble the person who presented the card. Upon questioning, the person gave a false name. The person later admitted that he was not a Northeastern student, but just in possession of a student I.D. He was told to leave campus and not return. Campus Police are in the process of locating the person whose I.D. was used.
Saturday, April 12 12:30 a.m. A 19-year-old female student reported her cell phone missing after leaving it in the bathroom while in the Curry Ballroom.
2:30 a.m. A Resident Assistant in Smith Hall heard excessive noise coming from a first-floor room. The RA discovered students in the room that were intoxicated. The police were then notified. Living in the room were an 18-year-old and 20-year old males, both of whom admitted to drinking that night. Also in the room were a 19-year-old female student and an 18-year-old male visitor. The students will be referred to OSCCR.
3:30 a.m. A flyer hanging on the wall on the third floor of White Hall was lit on fire, setting off the fire alarm in the building and forcing residents to evacuate.
4 a.m. A female resident in Stetson East reported that three or four men were aggressively knocking on her door in order to be let in. The student had no idea who the men were. She remained on the phone with the Northeastern Police until officers arrived. When the men were questioned, they said that they were looking for a girl and did not know where she lived. They were signed in by a girl that was nowhere to be found. A second female student told the officers that the men had knocked on her door earlier saying that they were maintenance. When she opened the door they tried to force their way in, and she proceeded to slam the door. Officers will be speaking to the person who signed the men in and the student may be referred to OSCCR.
4 p.m. A female law student left her wallet unattended in the Law Library. When she returned, $35 in cash was missing.
5:30 p.m. Boston Police requested Northeastern Police assistance to investigate a robbery that occurred in Mission Hill. The Boston Police had a description and license plate of the car that was allegedly used to flee when a drug deal had gone wrong involving a friend of a Northeastern student. The friend is not a student at Northeastern. The individual had attempted to buy over $1,000 in marijuana from three men. The men were referred to this individual by another Northeastern student that knew them, and they arranged to meet in Mission Hill. The person who claimed to be a friend of an NU student allegedly gave the men $1,500 and instead of the men giving him a half-pound of marijuana, they assaulted him and left. The man that was assaulted called the Boston Police Department. The three men he allegedly tried to buy from were said to be Northeastern students. Police spotted the car by West Campus with two of the suspects still inside and arrested them. Brass knuckles and a knife that were allegedly used in the assault were confiscated, as well as the $1,500. The third person and the marijuana were not there. The investigation continued into the evening as the police discovered that the men were in fact students. One of the men arrested lived in an apartment on West Campus. Officers went to the apartment and while they were there, another student arrived and was arrested. The Police obtained a search warrant to search the inner room of the apartment. In the room the Boston Police recovered a”sizable” amount of marijuana and drug paraphenalia. All three men were arrested by the Boston Police Department. The men were ages 19, 20 and 21. Two lived in West Campus and one lived off campus. All three will immediately be referred to OSCCR.
Sunday, April 13 3 p.m. Two 21-year-old male roommates in West Campus B reported a cell phone missing as well as a digital camera and $30 in cash. They believed that the theft occured overnight when their third roommate, who was new to the room this quarter, had several guests in the room.
Monday, April 14 5:30 p.m. A 22-year-old female student reported that her purse was taken from under her chair while taking an exam in Ryder Hall between 4 and 5 p.m. She was one of the last students to leave the room. The purse contained her cell phone, credit cards, a license and several hundred dollars in cash.
7 p.m. A female resident from Davenport B reported that her roommate’s boyfriend, who is not a student and who is banned from campus because of an earlier incident, was in her apartment. He was arrested in the apartment a couple of weeks ago. All of the residents in the apartment know that he was banned and is not allowed to return. The student saw him leave the apartment by the time the police arrived he was already gone. The police checked the guest sign-in sheets at the Community Receptionist desk. One of her roommates signed in a man that night, but with a name different than the boyfriend’s. The roommate who signed this person in did not return to the room last night and is said to have called the room asking another roommate to not say that she had signed him in. This student will be referred to OSCCR. Charges may be pressed against the boyfriend for trespassing. Anyone using the false name that was used to sign him into the building will also not be allowed into the building.
