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Money hungry
A resident assistant in Houston Hall reported to Tufts University Policy Department (TUPD) at 6 p.m. on Sept. 21 that two people were taking money from a vending machine. Officers arrived at Houston and searched surrounding buildings after hearing similar reports from Carmichael Hall.
TUPD Sgt. Robert McCarthy said that the individuals only attempted to enter the machines in Houston and Carmichael. TUPD reported the break-ins to Next Generation Vending and Food Service, Inc., the business that owns the machines. The company responded immediately and changed the locks on all its machines on campus. TUPD does not believe the two individuals were affiliated with Tufts.
Nothing but the truth
TUPD officers responded at 10:45 p.m. on Sept. 21 to a noise complaint from residents of Latin Way. When officers knocked on the door of a room from which loud music was playing, the individual who answered tried to close the door upon seeing the officer. "He wasn't successful," McCarthy said.
The individual claimed he was a student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, which another student in the room supported, but showed officers a Tufts ID, confirming that he was a Tufts student.
"He probably wouldn't have had a report written about him if he told the truth," McCarthy said.
O brother, where art thou?
A TUPD officer at 9 p.m. on Sept. 23 saw a male placing two 40-oz. beer bottles on the ground in front of Andrea's House of Pizza on Boston Avenue. The officer asked for the individual's ID but noticed that the picture did not look like him. He said he was visiting his brother, a Tufts student. When the student who the ID belonged to arrived at the scene, the officer found that the individual was using his brother's ID to purchase the alcohol.
Crash landing
An officer at 12:36 a.m. on Sept. 25 found a female student lying facedown on the street near the TUPD garage on Boston Avenue. The student had been knocked unconscious after falling down the stairs located next to the garage. She was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital and released at 4:30 a.m. without critical injuries.
Just let it go, man
TUPD officers at 12:41 a.m. on Sept. 26 saw two males in an altercation in front of the Delta Upsilon (DU) fraternity house at 114 Professors Row. The fight began after a DU brother refused to let a student enter the house's party. TUPD broke up the dispute but at 2:48 a.m. found the same two individuals fighting in front of Hodgdon Hall, where one of the students lived.
The Hodgdon resident at 3:42 a.m. reported that someone had written a derogatory phrase on his door. He told TUPD he suspected a specific student, but TUPD did not investigate further due to the lack of witnesses.
Fifth time's the charm
TUPD at 2:21 a.m. on Sept. 26 responded to complaints of a loud party taking place on Teele Avenue. Somerville Police Department officers arrived at the scene as well. Since this marked the fifth time since Sept. 1 that the Somerville Police had responded to reports of noisy parties at this location, the police issued a $300 city noise violation to each of the house's three residents.
