Vending machine vandalized for food, not money
On Feb. 18 at 8:55 p.m., a Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) officer responded to a call concerning vandalism to a vending machine in Stratton Hall.
Upon inspection, it appeared as though someone had pried off the cover of the vending machine. The perpetrator took some of the candy, but left all the money.
Twenty dollars in change remained in the vending machine.
Students carrying keg deny they are doing so
On Feb. 19 at 1:18 a.m., TUPD "officers observed two students carrying a keg of beer towards Latin Way," according to McCarthy.
When the students saw the officers, they dropped the keg and continued walking.
When the officers stopped the students, "at first they denied they were carrying the keg [and said] it wasn't them," McCarthy said.
However, one officer pressed them, saying that he knew they were lying and warning them that they could be arrested.
The keg was confiscated, and the report was forwarded to the deans' office.
Stranger wanders into DU, pockets cell phone
Some time between 8:30 and 9 p.m. on Feb. 21, an adult white male stole a cell phone from the Delta Upsilon fraternity house on Professors Row.
One of the fraternity brothers came down the stairs and saw the unfamiliar man leaving the common room. When the DU brother asked him what he was doing, the man mumbled a response and left the house.
The student who had seen the man told his fraternity brothers to look through their jackets in the common room to see if anything was missing. One brother was missing a cell phone, presumably taken by the intruder.
House receives two noise complaints in two days
In the early morning of Feb. 22, at 3:23 a.m., the Somerville Police Department (SPD) responded to a loud-noise complaint it received regarding 14 Curtis Avenue.
When police officers informed a student of the complaint, the student responded, "I'm f---ing playing French opera. How is that noise?"
SPD issued him a citation with an escalated fine.
The following day at 12:50 a.m., TUPD again received a complaint regarding the same apartment at the same address. Both TUPD and the Somerville Police Department reported to the scene to quiet the inhabitants of the house.
"Some students were playing loud music there at all hours of the night," TUPD Sergeant Robert McCarthy said.
- compiled by Victoria Kabak
