Balloon boy
Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) officers responding at 5:13 p.m. on Nov. 13 to a fire alarm in a dormitory room in Tilton Hall found a substantial amount of illegal substances.
Upon their arrival, the officers smelled burnt marijuana, knocked several times, received no response and entered the room. No one was inside, but officers did find a marijuana cigarette on a computer tray; a plastic bag with what appeared to be hallucinogenic mushrooms; four plastic baggies with marijuana; two boxes of full, unused CO2 cartridges, numbering approximately 40 cartridges; and two pieces of a pipe that screwed together with a balloon on one end. They also discovered a box with 150 used CO2 cartridges.
“That’s more than we usually find, let’s put it that way,” TUPD Sgt. Robert McCarthy said.
TUPD contacted the student who resides in that room. According to McCarthy, he will receive a judicial referral for possession of a Class D substance (marijuana), possession of a Class A substance (hallucinogenic mushrooms) and possessing inhalants, which is against a city ordinance in Somerville, where Tilton Hall is located.
Perfect birthday or bused
TUPD officers conducted a patrol of the area outside the Tufts Administration Building on Holland Street in Somerville at 1:20 a.m. on Nov. 14 after recent break-ins of several vehicles owned by the Somerville Chamber of Commerce, which uses part of the building’s parking lot. The officers noticed that the hazard lights of one of the buses were on and, after they exited their cruiser, saw several individuals inside the bus run toward the emergency exit in the back of the bus, jump out and run onto Holland Street.
The officers pursued the individuals on foot and caught up to one of them after he fell.
The person, a 19-year-old Somerville resident unaffiliated with the university, said it was his birthday and that he and his friends were in the bus drinking. Nothing was stolen, and the bus was not damaged.
“The only thing in the vehicle was an empty bottle of Jägermeister,” McCarthy said.
The Somerville resident will be summoned for a court date for breaking and entering of a motor vehicle in the nighttime, according to McCarthy.
“Some people have cake and ice cream. He goes to an abandoned bus and drinks,” McCarthy said.
I saw the sign, and it opened up my eyes. And then I stole it.
TUPD officers responding to a medical call on Ware Street in Somerville at 8 p.m. on Nov. 14 discovered a City of Somerville sign in the hallway of the house. The sign, which was eight feet long and weighed over 100 pounds, read “Powder House Square.”
A student at the house said he and a former student had originally taken the sign during the summer of 2007 to a residence on College Avenue where one of them was living at the time. The student said they moved the sign to Ware Street in August when he moved.
TUPD contacted the Somerville Police Department, which then contacted the Somerville Department of Public Works, which came and removed the sign.
A report will be sent to the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs.
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