TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 10:56 p.m. — An 18-year-old male student reported his wallet containing $50, a credit card and a debit card stolen from a cubby in the East Gym, said Investigator Dennis P. Bush of Binghamton’s New York State University Police. The victim left a pair of pants containing the wallet in one of the cubbies and went to work out. When he returned, both items were gone. Police have no suspects.
TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 11 p.m. — A 21-year-old male student tried to pay for a pizza he ordered that evening with a counterfeit $20 bill, Bush said. The exchange took place in College-in-the-Woods on the Seneca Hall Service Drive, where the 23-year-old pizza delivery person took the bill for the pizza and held it up to the light to check for its authenticity, only to find that it had no security ribbon. When the worker informed the suspect that the bill was fake, the suspect asked if he could pay with credit, to which the worker stated that he could not. The suspect returned to his hall while the delivery person reported the incident to patrol. Officers identified the suspect in his dorm room in Seneca Hall, and although he initially denied it, he later admitted that he tried to pay with the counterfeit bill. When the officers asked what had happened to it, the suspect claimed that he had thrown it out, but a search of his garbage turned up no results. After being pressed, the suspect admitted that he had gotten the counterfeit bill from his roommate, who had in turn gotten it at home as change. He proceeded to produce the bill undamaged, admitting that he had lied because he did not want to get in trouble. The officers ripped up the bill and confiscated the shreds as evidence. Although the two roommates were not charged, they will be referred to the Office of Student Conduct and the information about the bill was given to the Secret Service.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 3, 1:03 a.m. — A 41-year-old cab driver reported that two 19-year-old female students and an unknown third suspect had exited his cab at Delaware Hall in Newing College without paying their fare, Bush said. The driver went to a local officer on patrol saying that he had dropped off a group of students at Delaware Hall, and that at least three of them left without having paid. The driver stated that if the students did not pay, he would seek prosecution. Patrol went to the hall and located the two female students, and although they did not deny the theft of services, they did not readily admit to having done it either. Eventually, they claimed to have simply forgotten. Although the third suspect was not located, the other two were allowed to leave after paying their fare.