By Isabella Darcy
News Editor
The Signal and Campus Police work together on a weekly basis to inform the campus community about crime on and around campus. All records given to The Signal are public records and do not contain personal information. Some information provided may be triggering for some students.
Sept. 30: Booted
Campus Police booted a white BMW in the early morning. The vehicle was bootable because it had already acquired three outstanding parking tickets and was parked without a permit in Lot 17.
Two more tickets were issued to the vehicle: one for a parking offense and the other for boot removal.
Sept. 30: Carbon mo-not-xide
A student called Campus Police in the late afternoon to report a carbon monoxide alarm going off in her Hausdoerffer Hall room. When officers arrived at her room, the carbon monoxide detector was not going off, nor were smoke detectors.
Campus Police requested that fire departments check the room to confirm that carbon monoxide was not present. Ewing Township Fire Department and West Trenton Volunteer Fire Company responded to the request.
While the firefighters were checking the room for carbon monoxide, the student said that she felt dizzy. EMS was called, and EMTs evaluated the student when they arrived. The student declined further medical treatment after the EMS evaluation was complete.
The firefighters found no signs of carbon monoxide in the room.
Oct. 1: Bad head
Hausdoerffer Hall was evacuated after a smoke detector triggered the building’s fire alarm in the late afternoon.
Campus Police and Ewing Township Fire Department both responded to the alarm and checked the room where the triggered smoke detector was. The responders found no signs of smoke or fire.
The Hausdoerffer resident who lives in the room, told responders that the alarm went off as soon as he walked into his room and put his backpack on the ground.
Daniel Posluszny, emergency preparedness and fire safety manager, said he suspected that the head of the smoke detector was faulty and would be replaced.
Oct. 5: Piping hot pizza
Burnt pizza triggered a smoke detector in a Brewster Hall room, causing the ABE fire panel to activate in the early morning. Smoke was only detected in the room, so ABE was not evacuated.
Campus Police and Ewing Township Fire Department responded to the call and found no signs of smoke or fire. Students who were in the room told the responders that they had used a microwave to heat a pizza. The microwave was empty and responders did not notice any odor of burnt food.
The room was deemed safe and the fire panel was reset.
Oct. 10: Booted
Campus Police booted a white Toyota RAV4 while doing parking enforcement in the morning. The vehicle was bootable because it had already acquired three outstanding parking tickets, and was parked without a permit in Lot 17.
Two more tickets were issued to the vehicle: one for parking without a permit, and the other for boot removal.
Oct. 10: Another boot
Campus Police booted a white Acura TL in Lot 6 while doing parking enforcement in the late morning. The vehicle was bootable because it had already acquired three outstanding parking tickets.
One more ticket was issued to the vehicle for boot removal.
Oct. 11: My biggest fear
A resident who lives in Townhouses East was drying her hair in the evening after putting in heat-protecting oil, when the smoke detector in her bedroom caused a fire alarm to activate. The entire unit was evacuated.
Campus Police and Ewing Township Fire Department responded to the alarm. When the responders entered the unit they found “a slight smoke condition, which became heavier” as Campus Police approached the resident’s bedroom.
Firefighters completed a check of the area and deemed it safe to re-enter.
Oct. 12: Non-compliant intoxicated student
A student who was intoxicated in Phelps Hall was referred to Student Conduct after giving first responders a hard time when they tried to evaluate him in the middle of the night.
Campus Police were first alerted about the intoxicated student when they were flagged down by a woman who said that the student was lying in the hallway of Phelps. When Campus Police found the student, he was still lying on the ground. The student, however, quickly got up when Campus Police made contact with him.
Campus Police suspected that the student was intoxicated because his eyes were glassy, he was swaying while moving, some of his speech was unintelligible, and he had dirt and vomit on his clothing. The student denied consuming any drugs or alcohol.
When asked, the student refused to provide his full name or an ID. Instead, he continued to repeat that he wanted to get back to bed and sleep. Campus Police told the student that he could sleep once he let EMTs evaluate him.
Lions EMS responded to Phelps and asked the student for his name. The student refused to answer. The EMTs continued to ask the student questions but received no response. The student ignored the EMTs by looking at his phone and attempting to walk away.
Campus Police then informed the student that he needed to give his name or ID, otherwise he would be arrested for trespassing since they could not identify him as a resident of Phelps without his information. The student showed his ID to the EMTs, but not Campus Police. He was confirmed to be a Phelps resident.
The EMTs completed their evaluation and cleared the student. Campus Police then referred the student to Student Conduct for being uncooperative.
