Police Record: April 26, 2011

• Emory Police Department (EPD) responded to Trimble Hall on April 17 at approximately 2:18 a.m. Officers who arrived at the third floor of the residential hall found three unknown males banging on the door of a room on the floor and yelling for the student inside to let them in. One of the males outside the door said he lived in the room. The Resident Advisor on the floor unlocked the door and noticed that the student inside was blocking the door. The roommate outside the door appeared to have been drinking. Officers contacted Emory Emergency Medical Services (EMS). The subject was transported to Emory University Hospital for further care.

• EPD received a report from a female student at Clairmont Residential Center D Building on April 16 at about 10 p.m. The student said when she arrived at her room at approximately 9 p.m., there was a male, about 5’9” and wearing a black shirt and black jeans, standing near her door. The subject said he was looking for a person named “Cletus.” The student told him there was no person by that name in the building, and the subject left the scene. Officers are unsure if the subject was affiliated with Emory.

• EPD officers responded to a hit-and-run at the intersection between Oxford Road and Eagle Row on April 20. The incident occurred some time between 1:01 p.m. and 1:50 p.m. that day. EPD officers met with officers from the DeKalb Police Department who said a white vehicle was struck by a green BMW while the former was driving on Oxford Road. The DeKalb police were looking around the Emory campus for the green car when EPD officers arrived on location. When the driver of the green car pulled up in front of the Administration Building, one of the EPD officers detained the driver and identified the subject as an Emory student. The case was turned over to the DeKalb Police Department for further investigation.

— Compiled by Staff Writer Hillary Li

Police Report: April 15, 2011

• Emory Police Department (EPD) received a report of property damage at 12 Eagle Row, the Alpha Tau Omega (ATO) house, on April 8. Officers who arrived at the location met with the ATO house director and the fraternity president. The fraternity president said that around 15 unknown male students tore away pieces of the Viking ship display the ATO members had created on the front lawn of their fraternity house. The individuals also threw fireworks at the house, which caused a bush to smoke. EPD officers checked the scene and found no fire in the area of the bushes. The fraternity president said people have attempted to destroy the ship, which costs the fraternity approximately $150 to create, in the past as well. EPD patrolled around the house for the rest of the night.

• EPD responded to a call on April 9 at approximately 12:50 a.m. The caller reported a subject sitting on the railroad tracks near Starvine Parking Deck. Officers arrived at the location and discovered a female sitting on the tracks at the opening of the fence leading to the area. She was smoking a cigarette and talking on the phone when officers approached. The subject said she worked at a nearby day care center and used the tracks during her work break. Officers suggested she move away from the tracks for her own safety.

• An EPD officer responded to an underage white female down with alcohol intoxication at 1:30 a.m. on  April 10. The officer saw her lying on the sidewalk near the Woodruff P.E. Center exit. She appeared to be unable to walk on her own. The officer spoke with the subject, and she said she had consumed vodka, rum and punch at a fraternity party. The officer requested services of Emory Emergency Medical Service, but the subject refused treatment or transport. She was escorted back to her residence hall by two friends.

— Complied by Staff Writer Hillary Li

Police Report: April 8, 2011

•An Emory Police Department (EPD) officer responded to McTyeire Hall on March 31 at approximately 8:00 p.m. He was patrolling the area around the residence hall when he heard glass breaking. The officer turned to survey the scene and noticed glass from a broken window pane that had fallen to the ground from the third floor of the hall. He responded to the room from which the window had broken, and found three individuals around a sink inside the room. One of the students, a male identified as a resident of Harris Hall, was washing blood from his hands. The injured student told the officer he had been drinking and wanted to look out the window. When he leaned against the window, the glass broke. The officer assessed that the student did not need to be transported to the hospital. He was treated on the scene and allowed to return to his residence hall.

•An EPD officer on patrol reported an incident on Eagle Row on April 1 at around 12:20 a.m. He reported that he had identified a white male subject on the lawn of 6 Eagle Row. The subject was standing in front of the fraternity house and taking his clothes off. Once he recognized the officer, he ran between the fraternity houses toward the Woodruff P.E. Center tennis courses. Due to other calls requiring EPD response at the time, the subject was not pursued by the officer.

• EPD responded to the Emory Conference Center Hotel on April 3 at approximately 2:56 a.m. The staff member who contacted EPD said guests were running up and down the hallways, disturbing others staying in the hotel. The subjects were identified as members of a visiting fraternity from Tennessee. Officers met with the president of the fraternity, who said he would get his members back to their rooms. No further action was taken, and officers left the area.

— Compiled by Staff Writer Hillary Li

Police Record: March 1, 2011

• Emory Police Department (EPD) officers responded to a call about an individual who refused to leave the Woodruff Residential Center WReC Room grill on Feb. 18 at 12:55 a.m. The individual may have been a former employee at the location. No further details were available at press time.

• EPD received a report of property damage to a catering van parked at a loading dock at Rollins School of Public Health on Feb. 18. The windshield of the van had been smashed sometime between 1:35 and 2:15 p.m., resulting in $450 worth of damage. Glass fragments were found on the bottom of the loading dock’s garage door, so it appeared that this door may have hit the van’s windshield.

• EPD received a call about an incident of property theft at Woodruff Library that occurred on Feb. 20 sometime between 8:15 and 8:30 p.m. The victim stated that he had left a silver iPod Touch, valued at $200, and a 17-inch MacBook Pro laptop at a cubicle on the seventh floor of the library. When he returned 15 minutes later, the items were gone. There are no suspects for this case, which has been turned over to an investigator.

• EPD received a call about a suspicious person — described as a black male subject wearing dark clothing — walking around the break area in the Emory Conference Center Hotel on Feb. 21 at 6:45 a.m. When EPD officers met with the individual, they asked him to leave the property once they determined that he did not have specific business at the location.

• EPD received a call about the theft of a bicycle from a bike rack by the School of Medicine on Feb. 21. The owner of the men’s Schwinn road bike stated that he had secured it to the bike rack with a cable lock on Feb. 18 at 8 a.m. and noticed that it was missing on Feb. 21. The bicycle is valued at $150.

— Compiled by Managing Editor Nina Dutton

Police Report: Feburary 25, 2011

• Emory Police Department (EPD) officers responded to a call about two missing Druid Hills High School students in Lullwater Park on Feb. 18 at 6:35 p.m. The mother of one of the two female students called EPD to report that she expected her daughter, who is on the track team, to be done running in the park at 6 p.m. The officers located the students and reunited them with the mother at 6:40 p.m.

• EPD officers responded to a complaint of a suspicious person in the Dobbs University Center (DUC) Down Under room on Feb. 19 at 7:33 p.m. The caller had described a female individual who was wearing all black, sitting on the couch in that room with many bags of belongings. The individual told the officers that she works part-time for Emory, but EPD could not confirm her employment. The officers asked her to leave the location until she had specific business on campus.

• EPD arrested Jesse Holliday for criminal trespassing at the North Decatur Building on Feb. 19 at 7:59 p.m. Holliday had walked into the entrance of the building and stated that he was there to retrieve property. He was asked several times if he had called to make arrangements, but he did not respond. EPD had previously issued Holliday a criminal trespass warning on Jan. 28 and arrested him on Feb. 2 for returning to campus without specific business. On Feb. 19, once he was in custody of EPD, Holliday also damaged an EPD patrol car as a result of beating his head against the closed window.

• EPD received a call about property damage in Lullwater Park on Feb. 20 at 4:02 p.m. The caller stated that she had observed the image of an eye and the words “eye see you” spray-painted on a bridge. She also stated that another eye had been spray-painted — in red — on a blue light call box in the park. More spray-painted images and phrases were found on a trash can near a different call box and on other surfaces leading through the park to Clairmont Campus.

— Compiled by Managing Editor Nina Dutton

Police Report: February 22, 2011

• Emory Police Department (EPD) officers responded to a call about a fight at 15 Eagle Row on Feb. 11 at 3:14 a.m. The victim, a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, stated that a member of Kappa Alpha Order fraternity had tried to start a fight with him and one of his friends. The victim had been hit on the left side of his face but refused medical treatment. Ten people were apparently involved in the incident, but all had left the location by the time the officers arrived.

• A student contacted EPD about an incident of suspicious activity that occurred at the intersection of Briarcliff Road and North Decatur Road on Feb. 16 at 2:30 a.m. The student had been driving on Briarcliff Road when an individual approached him with a solicitation for money. The individual stated that he had a small child at a hospital at Emory. The student provided the individual with a sum of money and was not injured in the incident. The incident has been reported to EPD and the DeKalb County Police Department.

• EPD officers responded to a report of someone unloading items from a Corona beer truck on Gatewood Drive on Feb. 16 at 11:07 a.m. EPD later determined that the truck had been stolen from a nearby grocery store. The case has been turned over to the DeKalb County Police Department.

• An Emory employee contacted EPD about an incident of suspicious activity at the offices in the old sorority lodges at 1315 Clifton Road on Feb. 17 at 1:02 p.m. The caller stated that an “older” male subject, with a slim build and wearing a blue shirt and jeans, had been smoking a cigarette on the back porch of the building. She told him that he was on private property and asked him to leave.

• EPD received notice of a physical altercation in front of a fraternity house on Eagle Row that took place on Feb. 18 sometime between 3 and 5 a.m. The incident involved two male students, one of whom walked to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta after the fight to obtain treatment for a facial injury. The case has been turned over to an investigator.

— Compiled by  Managing Editor Nina Dutton

Police Report: February 8, 2011

• The Emory Police Department (EPD) received a call about an accident between two vehicles that occurred at Parking Deck E at Clairmont Campus on Jan. 29 some time between 3:52 p.m. and midnight. A female student was driving a black Honda toward the parking deck’s exit, while a male student was backing his blue Chrysler with Michigan tags into a parking space, when the two students’ cars collided. At the time of the call, neither student wished to file a police report.

• EPD officers responded to a call about a fight between 20 people at the Sigma Chi (SigChi) fraternity house on Jan. 30 between 2:00 and 4:30 a.m.  By the time the officers arrived, there was no active fight at the location. The victim stated that he had been at Maggie’s Bar and Grill when he became involved in a verbal argument. Members of Sigma Nu (SigNu) fraternity who had been engaged in the original argument at Maggie’s reportedly went to the SigChi house upon returning to campus, and the fight apprently ensued from that point. The victim’s face was swollen and he had sustained cuts. He was transported to Emory University Hospital, but he said he was not interested in pressing charges. The incident has been turned over to an investigator.

• EPD officers arrived at Turman Hall on Jan. 30 at 2:32 a.m. in response to a call that a male student had passed out in a second floor bathroom. The caller was concerned because the student had recently had some sort of surgery. The officers, who had to force their way into the bathroom area, found the student on the floor, unconscious. DeKalb Medical and Fire Rescue transported him to Emory Hospital.

• An EPD officer responded to a complaint from a library staff member of a suspicious person at Woodruff Library on Feb. 1 at midnight. The staff member stated that the white subject, who gave an Atlanta address, did not appear to belong in the area and exhibited strange behavior. When the staff member confronted the subject to ask why he was at the location, the subject became argumentative. When the officer arrived and made contact with the subject at a computer terminal, the subject stated that he is not affiliated with the University but comes to the library to use the computers. In the EPD officer’s presence, the staff member advised the subject as to the rules for use of the library and the subject left without further incident.

— Compiled by Managing Editor Nina Dutton

Police Record: February 4, 2011

• As they patrolled the Goizueta Business School on Jan. 28 at 4:08 p.m., Emory Police Department (EPD) officers stopped an individual that they believed had been sleeping in the building, based on descriptions of the subject in previous calls from witnesses. EPD issued the subject a trespass warning and asked him not to return to campus. He was allowed to leave the area that night.

• EPD officers again found the individual who had received the trespass warning – a black male subject who is approximately 6 feet 2 inches tall and 215 pounds – in Cannon Chapel on Feb. 3 at 11:16 p.m. The officers arrested the subject, who was charged with criminal trespassing and transported to the DeKalb County Jail.

• A student contacted EPD on Jan. 26 at 3:29 p.m. to report an online scam. She stated that she had found a job, via Craigslist, as a “personal assistant.” The “employer” sent her a check for a large sum of money, requesting that she first deposit it into her checking account and then send a money order to England from her account. She then received a second check and was asked to perform the same set of tasks. But when she tried to deposit the second check, her bank informed her that her account had been put on hold because the first check had bounced. This case is now under investigation.

• An EPD officer responded to Glenn Memorial Church on Jan. 28 at 1:07 p.m. in response to a call about a suspicious person. According to the caller, a 64-year-old, white male subject had entered the building and then refused to leave when asked. The subject told the EPD officer that he was heading to his car, which was parked at Oxford Road and North Decatur Road, and that he was living at Atlanta Mission. The officer assisted him with locating his vehicle, and he departed campus without further incident.

— Compiled by Managing Editor Nina Dutton

Police Record: February 1, 2011

• Sodexo employees at Cox Hall contacted the Emory Police Department (EPD) on Jan. 21 at noon and stated that a student had attempted to use a counterfeit $20 bill to pay for a meal there. The student, who stated that she had received the bill from a Walmart, then used a different form of payment. The case has been turned over to the U.S. Secret Service.

• A female caller contacted EPD on Jan. 22 at 4:00 p.m. and stated that she had seen a person in the Goizueta Business School who fit a security guard’s description of an apparently homeless person who had been sleeping in the east wing commons area of the building. The caller described this person as a black man in his 20s or 30s who was six feet tall and had a thin build; he was also wearing a leather jacket with patches on it. It appeared to the caller that this person was carrying a laptop. The case has been turned over to an investigator.

• An incident of entering auto took place at 15 Eagle Row sometime between Jan. 22 at 4:00 p.m. and Jan. 23 at 1:30 p.m. The owner of the vehicle stated that he did not lock the doors of his green 2001 Jeep Wrangler, which has New Mexico tags, because it has a soft cover. When the owner returned to his vehicle on Jan. 23, he noticed that the Pioneer AM/FM stereo was missing and the glove compartment door was broken. No one witnessed the incident. The case has been turned over to an investigator.

• A Norred security officer saw a suspicious person in the Goizueta Business School on Jan. 23 sometime between 11:19 p.m. and midnight. This individual appeared to be a black man who was six feet tall and carrying a backpack. The officer stated that he suspected that this person had been sleeping in the building. EPD officers searched the building and other areas of campus but did not find the subject that night, and have been patrolling the building regularly.

— Compiled by Managing Editor Nina Dutton

Police Record: January 25, 2011

• Emory Police Department (EPD) officers received a call on Dec. 28 at 7:40 p.m. that a tall, black male subject was attempting to flag down cars at the intersection of Oxford Road and Eagle Row. The subject, who identified himself as “Eugene,” was asking drivers for money for his family in what appeared to be a scam, according to witnesses. The officers were unable to locate the subject.

• A custodial supervisor found an unknown male subject sleeping on the sixth floor of the 1599 Clifton Road building at midnight on Dec. 29. The subject was not wearing any shoes and left the building as soon as the supervisor spotted him.

• An EPD officer responded to a call about vehicle damage at Starvine parking deck on Jan. 6 at 6:04 p.m. The owner of the vehicle stated that an unleashed dog had struck and damaged the side of the car. A woman had been walking the dog nearby without a leash. After the incident, she retrieved the dog and took it away to a veterinarian, but she left her business card with the car owner.

• EPD officers responded to a call about a black male subject sleeping on a sofa in a second floor room of the Dobbs University Center (DUC) on Jan. 8 at 3:19 p.m. The subject was not a student, and EPD had arrested him once previously at Emory University Hospital Midtown. He said that he was there at the DUC to retrieve property. Officers returned the property, which EPD had been holding, and escorted the subject off-campus without any problems.

• A female student called EPD on Jan. 10 and stated that unknown persons had entered her apartment — located in Building G of the Clairmont Residential Center — and removed a suitcase filled with clothes sometime between Jan. 5 at 5:30 p.m. and Jan. 10 at 6 p.m. The total value of the contents of the suitcase is approximately $1600. EPD officers found no signs of forced entry, but facilities management or maintenance workers had evidently entered the apartment on Jan. 6 to change a filter. The case has been turned over to an investigator.

— Compiled by Managing Editor Nina Dutton