Volume 125 >> Issue 29 : Wednesday, July 6, 2005

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Police Log

The following incidents were reported to the MIT Police between May 5 and June 24. This summary does not include incidents such as suspicious activity, false alarms, general service calls, medical shuttles, or isolated incidents of theft.

May 5: Bldg. 3, 3rd fl. (122 Memorial Dr.), hackers found.

May 10: Bldgs. 56-66 (21 Rear Ames St.), hack by students.

May 11: Next House (500 Memorial Dr.), larceny by credit card; Student Center (84 Mass. Ave), bike stolen.

May 12: Next House (500 Memorial Dr.), MIT ID stolen.

May 16: Next House (500 Memorial Dr.), attempted breaking and entering: door super-glued; Zesiger Center (84 Mass Ave), wallet stolen from locker.

May 17: Zesiger Center (100 Vassar St.), MIT ID, bank card, and cash stolen from unlocked locker.

May 18: Bldg. 56 (21 Rear Ames St.), attempted breaking and entering.

May 19: Next House (500 Memorial Dr.), camera stolen.

May 21: Wadsworth St. near Eastgate (E55), assault and battery of female MIT student by three white males. Following a minor road-rage incident, offenders approached victim and her fiance; one offender struck victim in the eye.

June 5: McCormick (320 Memorial Dr.), breaking and entering; Bldg. 9 (105 Mass. Ave.), bike stolen from rack; 5 Cambridge Ctr., youths flee on foot after abandoning two bikes; Amherst Aly. (540 Memorial Dr), two suspicious persons heading west from McCormick, three bikes, backpack, and bolt cutters confiscated.

June 7: Bldg. 56 (21 Rear Ames St.), two males sleeping in classroom.

June 15: Student Center (84 Mass. Ave.), camera stolen; Zesiger Center (100 Vassar St), wallet stolen.

June 16: Main St. near Kendall T, assault and battery by four males, high-school age. Offenders approached victim and asked to use his cell phone; victim said that he did not have one; one offender pulled on victim’s shirt, asked if he wanted to fight, and struck him in the jaw.

June 18: Student Center (84 Mass. Ave.), bike stolen.

June 21: Sigma Nu (28 the Fenway), burglary.

June 22: Bldg. 2 (182 Rear Memorial Dr.), video camera and tapes stolen; Bldg. NW16 (167 Albany St.), breaking & entering, magnet stolen.

June 24: Bldg. 2 (182 Rear Memorial Dr.), tools stolen.

—Compiled by Marjan Rafat, with assistance of members of the MIT Crime Club.