We're going to be honest with you, officer: we're about to smoke weed
A Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) officer saw three people outside of Haskell Hall facing Powderhouse Boulevard while he was driving by the residence hall at 3:05 a.m. on Saturday, April 5. The officer reported that he observed one of the three students holding a glass pipe.
Upon approaching the trio, he observed the second student urinating on the building and the third student watching. When asked what they were doing, one of the students said, "We're about to smoke weed."
When the officer then asked for identification, two students said they did not have any. The officer, however, noticed wallets in both of their pockets, and both students admitted that they did, in fact, have ID cards.
When asked why they had lied, one student said he was nervous that the officer would confiscate his ID card. The officer also noticed a small bag of marijuana in the possession of one of the students. The pipe was disposed of and a report was sent to the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs.
BPD to TUPD: We have your student
The TUPD received a call at approximately 3 a.m. on Friday, April 3 from the Boston Police Department (BPD) saying they had placed a Tufts student in custody. The student was not arrested, but was simply placed in protective custody. When he made contact with a BPD officer outside of Club Mantra on Temple Place, he was confrontational and belligerent.
According to TUPD Sgt. Robert McCarthy, the student was placed in a special holding cell.
"You have to be drunk [to be placed in such a cell.] When deemed sober they'll let you go," McCarthy said.
The student was not charged and was released after at least four hours.
DHL delivery man gets a little too cozy in the Campus Center
TUPD officers were called to the Campus Center to speak to its manager at 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday, April 9. According to the manager, an employee of the delivery company DHL had been coming into the Campus Center, removing his shoes, bringing in food, eating and leaving his space messy.
The manager had asked him repeatedly not to come in and take his shoes off, but the DHL employee did not stop. The manager then called TUPD. When the TUPD officers came, the delivery man agreed to leave the area and never come back.
"If he had his shoes on, that might have helped," McCarthy said.
What's in the mystery bag?
A TUPD officer on Professors Row saw two males between the Chi Omega sorority and Delta Upsilon (DU) fraternity at 2:15 a.m. on Sunday, April 6. The officer noticed that the individuals were putting something into a black bag, but when the group saw the officer, one of them dropped the bag on the ground.
When approached and asked what they were doing, the individuals said they were just leaving the party at DU. The officer observed a piece of paper sticking out of the bag, which turned out to be a group photo of all the DU brothers. Also in the bag, the officer found three books, some rolling papers and a condom. When asked, one of the individuals said that they had acquired the items inside DU.
"He said he took the books because he wanted to read them," McCarthy said. One of the individuals was a Tufts student, but the other person was a visiting football recruit.
A Boston Avenue skirmish, a broken window and a pitchfork
TUPD received a call at 2:33 a.m. on Sunday, April 6 about an incident on Boston Avenue. TUPD officers drove to the scene at 361 Boston Ave. and noticed a large group of students in front of the house there. They observed a fight involving six to 10 individuals, with 25 to 30 people watching. One non-Tufts student fell off the retaining wall across from Dunkin' Donuts and was taken to the hospital. Armstrong Ambulance Service and the Medford Fire Department were called.
Police later discovered that there had been a party in the house and that the fight had started because the residents wanted an uninvited guest to leave. The residents asked the individual's friends to persuade him to leave the house. Once he was outside, the individual in question picked up some bricks and threw them at the house.
After the student had thrown the bricks, residents noticed that a window in the house was broken. When confronted, the individual stated that he had thrown bricks that damaged the drainpipe, but he did not break the window. The alleged brick thrower also claimed that another person had approached him with a pitchfork but had not tried to hurt him. The party was broken up, and the residents of the house were informed of their right to make a complaint in the Somerville Court.
