Law & Order: GWU

First up, an individual affiliated with GW reported a theft from his car parked off-campus. Upon returning to the car, he witnessed two suspects emerging from it, and took chase when they fled. He caught one suspect, and held him until officers arrived. The individual reported a few items stolen, including a laptop and charger and a pair of sunglasses.

In other parking news, two employees of the University Parking Garage reported being threatened by an individual unaffiliated with GW. The subject reportedly claimed that he would throw urine at the employees if they did not stop bothering him while he was trying to sleep in the lower level of the parking garage. The employees called UPD, but the individual was gone by the time officers arrived.

In City Hall, a weapons policy violation was reported after a student called UPD on his friend.  He claimed during the phone call that the other student had brandished a knife at him when he knocked on the subject’s door in the middle of a disagreement. But UPD officers, after interviewing both subjects, discovered that both students agreed that the student with the knife simply had it on him, and had not in fact threatened the other student with it.  A community director was called in for an administrative search, and a folding knife was found lying on the living room table.

Our final case occurred in Thurston, where a suspicious odor was reported. The officer on patrol contacted the community director about the room. An administrative search yielded drugs and drug paraphernalia in plain view, including a glass smoking pipe and grinder and less than 1 gram of marijuana residue.

- Jenn Neuner