Officers follow the smoke
Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) officers responded to a call on Nov. 13 at 9:30 p.m. from an RA on the third floor of Lewis who thought he smelled marijuana in one of the residents' rooms.
Officers were let into the suspected room by the resident who told them someone must have been smoking outside and that the smell wafted up to his room.
"[The smoke] didn't come up to the first or second floor," TUPD Sergeant Robert McCarthy said. "But I guess it came up to the third."
Mischief leads to dorm-wide fire alarm
TUPD officers responded to a call from Wren Hall because the fire alarm had been set off at 2:42 a.m. on Nov. 20. According to McCarthy, someone had broken into the case that holds the fire extinguisher on the fourth floor and proceeded to spray the extinguisher down the stairwell to the first floor.
The fire alarm in the whole building then went off.
Fire extinguisher redux
Another fire extinguisher was removed at 92 Professors Row, the Sigma Nu Fraternity, on Nov. 17. The extinguisher was sprayed throughout the first floor and basement, setting off the fire alarm. When TUPD officers arrived and asked everyone to evacuate the basement, they noticed one individual on a couch who wouldn't move. They quickly realized he was intoxicated; because he was underage, a report was sent to the Dean of Student Affairs Office.
-by Christy McCuaig
