Woodward break-in, theft goes unsolved
On July 31, a police officer noticed a large break in a glass window at Woodward Hall. According to the police report, after removing the blinds and entering the officer observed loose computer cables on the floor. The computer’s monitor was missing, but there was nobody on the scene to verify whether it was stolen.
According to the report, the officer found fingerprints on a piece of broken glass. Police later received a report that a computer was missing from the desk beside the broken window. The case is closed pending further leads.
‘Suspicious suspect’ steals from bookstore
On Aug. 8 a UNMPD officer was dispatched to the UNM Bookstore with word of a “suspicious suspect,” but was unable to catch the suspect on the scene. The next day, the officer was dispatched to the scene again regarding the same suspect. A bookstore manager said the suspect concealed items in his pants and walked out of the store without paying for them, and showed video evidence of the shoplifting.
Police determined that the suspect had been involved with shoplifting in the bookstore before, and that he has been banned from campus through June 2015. The manager gave a CD-R copy of the video evidence to police, and UNMPD will forward a criminal summons to the District Attorney’s Office for prosecution of the suspect.
Trespasser flees police, is booked after Tasering
On Aug. 13 police observed a man who “on many occasions had been told by UNM Police to stay off the UNM Campus” on the west side of the UNM Bookstore. UNMPD had issued criminal trespass warnings to the man for being intoxicated on campus and for smoking “a substance consistent with spice” in the past, according to the report.
When officers approached the man on the scene and told him that he was under arrest, he ran southward along Central Avenue. After driving for a while, officers reportedly spotted the man in the intersection of Silver Ave. and Harvard Dr. and asked him to surrender. The man reportedly went inside the Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice in retaliation, and officers followed.
According to the report, the man continued to resist arrest and attempted to bite an officer’s arm. Officers then reportedly contact Tasered the man, who continued to retaliate, and were able to handcuff him. Police arrested the suspect, who was booked into the MDC Prisoner Transport Center without further incident.
Buildings marked by ‘X’ graffiti to be cleaned
On Aug. 16, UNM’s Police Department received a call from the Physical Plant Department about various on-campus buildings being vandalized with graffiti. Police identified that damaged buildings included the Anderson School of Management, Ortega Hall, Bandelier Hall, Carlisle Gym and the Humanities and Biology buildings.
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Graffiti consisted of black ‘X’s. The Physical Plant will remove the graffiti, and the case is closed pending further leads.
-compiled by Ardee Napolitano
