“Eight Days a Week”

NOV. 18, 2 p.m. – An employee of BU’s business office in the Couper Administration Building filed a police report that her daughter’s ex-boyfriend called eight times in a week to demand that she return his clothing, said Investigator Matthew C. Rossie, a spokesman for Binghamton’s N.Y. State University Police. She said she doesn’t have his property.

Miss Communication

NOV. 21, 4:56 p.m. – The campus police arrested a Food Court worker after investigators spotted her on a surveillance video taking someone’s lost cell phone off the New Union’s first-floor ATM. The 37-year-old suspect, Luz Gonzales, said she hadn’t yet gotten a chance to turn the phone in to the lost-and-found, according to Investigator Rossie.

“She stated she forgot to turn it in to Sodexho because she was distracted by personal problems,” Rossie said.

Officers focused on Gonzales, who works for a local agency in Binghamton, Eastern Temporaries, after Sodexho managers identified her from the video as she allegedly removed the Samsung-brand phone about 15 minutes after the owner left it there, Rossie said.

They went to the tape and they knew where the suspected thief worked.

“I believe she was still wearing her Sodexho uniform,” Investigator Rossie said of what the video showed.

One of Gonzales’s friends later gave police the missing phone, which the police have in an evidence locker. Officers charged Gonzales with petit larceny.

She will appear in Vestal Town Court later this month.

Fire-d

NOV. 22, 2:01 p.m. – Dispatchers received a report of illegal fireworks being exploded behind Newing’s Chenango Hall. Officers didn’t find the perpetrators, but a witness identified two male students near Chenango. There wasn’t enough evidence to charge them criminally, but the students were referred to the campus judicial system, which has a lower burden of proof than law courts.

Planned spoof

NOV. 23, 12 a.m. – Dorm staff of Mountainview’s Marcy Hall told the police that they found marijuana and rolling papers, as well as a spoof — a toliet paper roll with dryer sheets attached on the end — while they were inspecting suites for Thanksgiving break. The spoof was found next to the window.

High holiday

NOV. 23, 3:50 p.m. – More than 13 hours after Marcy Hall staff found a spoof, weed and rolling papers, the staff of Endicott Hall found what a police report called “drug equipment” — a pumpkin carved especially to accommodate marijuana smoking — on the roof of the Newing dorm. BU police officers looked in nearby windows, but they couldn’t see any other drugs or paraphrenalia. “Res life staff threw the pumpkin away,” Rossie said.

Lamp-basted

NOV. 23, 3 p.m – Investigators aren’t sure who knocked over a light near Nanticoke Hall in the Susquehanna apartment complex, but they suspect the damage took place sometime during the Thanksgiving break between 3 p.m. on Nov. 23 and 7 a.m. on Nov. 28. Investigator Rossie surmised that the damage occurred when someone drove a vehicle on the narrow service drive in Susquehanna. The road is generally restricted to vehicles like garbage trucks and physical facilities pick-ups.

Fore! Um, none

NOV. 26, 12:01 a.m. – Someone stole a door off one of the golf carts used by Computing Services to drive around campus. The doors only come in sets, which cost $695 to replace.

Drop it like it’s locked

NOV. 28, 2:30 p.m. – A person finishing up a work-out in the East Gym returned to find her wallet missing. “She’s not sure if she locked her locker,” Investigator Rossie said.

Cleveland steamer

NOV. 28, 12:45 a.m. – A building guard walking through Hinman’s Cleveland Hall told his police supervisors that he noticed a missing smoke detector and a disconnected dryer hose in the laundry room. When police officers got there, they smelled marijuana smoke. They looked around the dorm but they couldn’t find any smoking.