The following is an account of crime events that took place this weekend, reported to The Herald by Deputy Chief of Police for the Department of Public Safety Paul Shanley:
Friday afternoon
A student reported that his backpack, containing a laptop and other items, had been stolen from the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center around 3 p.m after he had left it unattended. A DPS officer responded to the call and drove the student to the Providence Place Mall to activate the laptop’s tracking device at the Apple store.
When the student entered the mall, he recognized his backpack on an individual he remembered seeing at the campus center. At the sight of the student, the suspect dropped the backpack and fled the mall. DPS officers were not able to apprehend the suspect, but all of the student’s belongings were recovered.
Saturday morning
DPS received multiple reports of breaking and entering in Sears House in the early hours of Saturday morning, allegedly perpetrated by a group of unidentified male suspects.
Two students reported that a member of the group entered their rooms and stole their laptops around 6 a.m. while they were asleep.
One of the students woke up as the intruder left his room and followed him into the hallway, where the rest of the group was waiting. The student made the suspect return his computer before the group left the building.
The other theft victim did not wake up, and his laptop was not recovered. One additional student reported seeing the group in the hall earlier in the morning.
DPS has a thorough description of a few of the suspects involved and the case remains under investigation.
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