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The Tufts Daily
Where you read it first | Monday, April 29, 2024

Police Briefs

Punch buggy, no punchbacks

A male student at approximately 10:45 p.m. on Feb. 28 reported to the Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) that while walking on Wallace Street in Somerville, he was approached from behind by a suspect who stated that he was "strapped," which the student interpreted to mean that the suspect had a weapon.

The suspect told the student to hand over his bag, and when the student turned to face him, the suspect punched him in the eye. The student punched back, and the suspect ran away towards Holland Street.

 

This ain't Australia

TUPD officers at 1:45 a.m. on Mar. 6 pulled over a 58-year-old man driving on the wrong side of the road on College Avenue. The officers, smelling alcohol on his breath and seeing that the man's eyes were bloodshot, asked him to take a sobriety test. The test showed that he was drunk, and the officers arrested him.