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No direction home
Global Positioning System (GPS) units went missing from students' cars in three separate incidents during the past week. A graduate student reported at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 17 that a GPS unit was stolen from a car parked near the Science and Technology Center on Colby Street in Medford at some point between 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. The student had removed the GPS unit from the car's center console and hidden it elsewhere in the car, but had left the unit's bracket visible. On the same day at 8 p.m., a student's car parked on Boston Avenue across from the Hill Hall parking lot was broken into sometime after 10:15 a.m. that day, and a GPS unit was stolen from the glove compartment. TUPD received a report at 4:15 p.m. on Sept. 19 of a car with a smashed window on Boston Avenue. A GPS unit was stolen from the car, which belonged to a student.
Lost: Pants, dignity
TUPD, Tufts Emergency Medical Services, Cataldo Ambulance Service and the Somerville Fire Department responded to a report at 2:50 a.m. on Sept. 18 of a student in need in front of Latin Way. Emergency services checked him out and determined that he did not need to be hospitalized, and the student signed a refusal, "although we did give a ride home due to the fact that he only had his underwear on and didn't know where his pants were," TUPD Sgt. Robert McCarthy said. In addition to his underwear, the student was wearing a long-sleeved t-shirt and sneakers.
Maybe he wasn't happy with his pizza?
TUPD received a call at 2:56 a.m. on Sept. 19 to assist the Medford Police Department, which was responding to a report of vandalism at Espresso's Pizza on Boston Avenue. A student told police that he had been eating with another person at the restaurant when the other person got angry and punched a hole in the wall. The student said the other person got up and left the eatery. "He claims he has no idea who this person was or anything," McCarthy said.
Lighting up in Lewis
Officers responded on Sept. 20 at 1:50 a.m. to a report of the smell of marijuana coming from a room in Lewis Hall. Upon their arrival, the officers smelled marijuana burning and knocked on the door. Students who opened the door turned over four small bags of marijuana, which TUPD then photographed and destroyed. A report was sent to the dean's office.
