WEDNESDAY, April 2, 3:35 p.m. — An 18-year-old female student’s $250 organic chemistry textbook was stolen from the fourth floor of the Glenn G. Bartle Library, said Investigator Matt Rossie of Binghamton’s New York State University Police. She had left it unattended for about at least two hours. Police have no suspects.
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 10:23 p.m. — Police confiscated a 19-year-old male student’s “glass bong made out of a lightbulb, grinder with a yellow smiley face and small plastic bag filled with a green, leafy substance” from his room, Rossie said.
Officers had responded to Hinman College’s Roosevelt Hall after a resident assistant reported the smell of marijuana. Police were allowed entry into the suite’s common room. They smelled marijuana coming from one of the rooms in the suite. They knocked and were allowed entry by the 19-year-old’s roommate. Officers found said paraphernalia, but the roommate denied ownership. The “green, leafy substance,” which was measured about .01 grams, field-tested positive for marijuana.
The 19-year-old was called and asked to go to the campus police station in the Couper Administration Building. The 19-year-old admitted the bong, grinder and marijuana were his. He will face Judicial Affairs. No arrests were made.
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 10:59 p.m. — Police responded to a suite in Hinman’s Smith Hall after an RA reported the smell of marijuana. Officers knocked and were allowed in the suite by one of the residents, but smelled no marijuana — at first. But as they were about to leave, police smelled the odor coming from behind the closed the door of one of the rooms. Officers knocked on this room, but no one answered. They could hear people on the other side of the door.
The two 19-year-old male residents of the room were referred to Judicial Affairs.
THURSDAY, April 3, 1:08 a.m. — Officers responded to a smoke alarm in a suite in Mountainview College’s Cascade Hall. They knocked on the door and were allowed in. Of the seven people present, one was female, two of the males were were non-students with local addresses and three of the males were residents of the room.
Police smelled marijuana and found a bong, alcohol, a fake New York State driver’s license and a smoke detector taken from the wall.
Officers confiscated the bong and license, and the people agreed to empty the alcohol in the sink and replace the smoke detector.
No arrests were made, but the incident was referred to Judicial Affairs.
—Robert Hadad-Zlokower and Aaron Axelson