Law & Order: GWU

Up first, a case of simple assault out of Ivory Tower…University Police received a report that a verbal altercation that had originally taken place at an off-campus night club migrated to the lobby of Ivory Tower. According to the complainant, the argument culminated in a fellow male GW student punching him in the head. UPD arrived on scene only to find that the subject had fled. Charges were, in fact, filed and the case is in the hands of Metropolitan Police at this hour.

Next, a bizarre attempted arson case out of Mitchell Hall…University Police were dispatched to the lobby of Mitchell after receiving a complaint that a plastic bag was on fire in the center stairwell. Apparently, an unidentified individual had torched a Subway sandwich bag with a lighter. DC Fire responded to the scene, but by that time, the blaze had already been extinguished by a UPD supervisor. The case is still open.

Well, an embarrassing episode of public drunkenness out of HOVA graduate housing…UPD responded to an intoxicated female who had passed out in a hallway, not before vomiting and urinating on herself. The individual, who was unaffiliated with GW, was evaluated, transported to GW hospital for medical treatment and ultimately barred from campus.

And last, but certainly not least, big happenings at the Medical Faculty Associates Building on I Street…a verbal altercation between a patient and a staff member manning the front desk ended in a threat from the enraged patron that she was “going home to get [her] gun.” MPD responded, swept the building and waited for the patient to return. She never did.

- Jared Pliner