CRIME WATCH

Police report that there has been a series of threatening prank phone calls to female students living on and off campus. If you receive one of these calls, the New York State University Police department recommends that you immediately hang up and call police.

On campus, call 7-2393; off campus, call 911.

Busted by the intern?!

FRIDAY, OCT. 27, 3:44 p.m. — Officers from Binghamton’s New York State University Police travelling down Connector Road behind Mountainview observed what they assumed was a man urinating on a tree visible from the roadway. The officers asked the man to come toward their vehicle; he complied. The suspect was then asked by the officers why he was urinating in public. He denied having urinated. But a University Police intern travelling with police noticed that some urine had washed up on the suspect’s pants. The suspect was then informed that he had been witnessed by the two officers, who could arrest him for disorderly conduct, at which point the suspect admitted to the urination. He then asked not to be referred to the campus judicial system because because he had skipped one appointment already. The student’s request was denied and he was referred to the judicial office.

Bit off more than she could drink

SATURDAY, OCT. 28, 2:15 a.m. — Police responded to a call from Belmont hall in Hillside Community reporting an intoxicated 19-year-old female. When police arrived, another female was holding a bag for the intoxicated one to throw up in. According to the police report, she had imbibed six shots in one hour at the Ice House in Binghamton. When the police arrived, the bag-holder told them that the intoxicated girl had bitten her twice. The intoxicated alleged biter was transferred to Binghamton General Hospital.

While you were out …

SUNDAY, OCT. 29, 12:30 a.m. — A Residential Life staffer called University Police complaining of the smell of marijuana in Dickinson Community’s Rafuse Hall. Police knocked at the door from whence the smell was emanating. Nobody answered. The male residents of the room, 17 and 20 respectively, were referred to the campus judicial system. Although their presence was not confirmed, said Investigator Matt Rossie, the room’s residents are responsible for the smell of marijuana seeping from their room, and police may still refer them to the judicial office. “It’s the actual leaving of the room that sometimes gets the smell into the hallway,” Rossie said.

Bus Cussin’

SUNDAY, OCT. 29, 4:30 p.m. — Police responded to a report of a large group of students at the University Union bus stop trying to board a BC Transit bus. The driver had informed them that the bus was already full, but the students had apparently forced their way in. The person who called police said that the students were rude, unruly and had used foul language. When police arrived the bus was gone, and according to the caller the students were not on it. “It paints a bad picture of BU students,” Rossie said. There are no suspects.