Police Briefs

The imperfect crime
A  Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) officer was advised on Oct. 26 at 4 p.m. that a student was defacing public property on Curtis Street near Chetwynd Road. Wet cement had just been put down there, and a student was writing her name in it. The person who originally reported the incident told the officer that the student had entered a nearby house. The officer went to the house and spoke with the perpetrator, who turned out to be a student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She came outside and smoothed out the cement.
    "Kind of easy to catch when you write your own name in there," TUPD Sgt. Robert McCarthy said.

Spiderman, Spiderman ...
TUPD received a call at 11:40 p.m. on Oct. 28 of a male student passed out in the men's restroom in the campus center, sitting on the floor next to a toilet. The student was woken up, said he was all .right and refused medical care. He had consumed several shots of alcohol and was planning to travel on a bus leaving from the campus center for the Senior Club Life celebration in Boston.
    The student was wearing a Spiderman Halloween costume at the time.

Trick or treat or pass out in the street
TUPD officers found at 12:06 a.m. on Nov. 1 an unconscious female student lying down at the corner of Curtis Avenue and Whitfield Road. As the officers arrived, another student approached them and reported being with the student when she fell to the ground. The first student was transported to Somerville Hospital.

Getting slugged, as easy as 123
TUPD received a call at 1:50 a.m. on Nov. 1 from two female students who said they had been beaten up earlier that night at a party at the Theta Delta Chi house at 123 Packard Ave. The students said they were dancing in the basement of the house when one of them bumped into an unidentified female who they believed was a student. That person then turned around and hit the student in the face, below her eye.
    The hit student fell down, and when her friend came over to help, the unidentified female and five or six of her friends started to hit her, too. Fraternity brothers broke up the fight and removed the unidentified female and her friends from the house.
    There is an ongoing investigation on this, McCarthy said.

Road head: the even more dangerous kind
TUPD and Medford police officers responded to a call at 9:23 a.m. on Nov. 3 of a cyclist who hit a moving vehicle at the intersection of Boston Avenue and College Avenue. The cyclist, a student, attempted to make a left turn onto College Avenue when he hit a car. He hit the windshield, and the helmet he was wearing cracked the windshield glass. The student was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, and Medford police are conducting an investigation.