Crime Blotter

Something is falling, look out below!
Is it rain, is it hail, is it sleet, is it snow?
No, somebody opened a window above,
Emptied a bottle and gave it a shove.

A report of a university housing resident’s guest throwingbottles out a window brought intervention by officers at 2 a.m.Oct. 8. Disposition of the case is pending.

Just after midnight Oct. 10, officers observed a subject andguest drinking open containers of alcohol in a hall. The matter wasreferred to internal handling.

A wallet was stolen out of a shoulder bag in university housingabout 5:30 p.m. Oct. 6. The loss was $10.

Pilfered property

A secured bicycle valued at $550 was taken from a bike rack atHoffman Hall about 9 a.m. Oct. 1.

A parking pass valued at $40 was taken from a vehicle brokeninto in Parking 3 about 9:30 p.m. Oct. 4.

A bike rack at Neuberger Hall yielded a secured bicycle worth$320 at about 10 a.m. Oct. 5.

A $625 secured bicycle was stolen from a light pole in front ofLincoln Hall at 2 p.m. Oct. 5.

A secured bicycle was stolen from a bike rack at Science 2 about8 a.m. Oct. 5. The loss was $140.

A bike rack on campus gave up a secured bicycle about midnightOct. 4. The loss was listed as $6.

A loss of $73 was reported when a backpack containing books andother items were stolen from an office cubicle in the Urban Centerat 6:30 p.m. Oct. 6. The pack and books were later recovered.

A box of movies was stolen at the PSU bookstore about 10:15 a.m.Oct. 7. The incident occurred when the complainant’s back wasturned. The value was $200.

A $300 loss was reported after a backpack was stolen from achair in Smith Memorial Student Union at 6 p.m. Oct. 8.

A vehicle in Parking 3 was broken into about noon Oct. 7 anditems worth $315 were missing.

Pinched persons

Patricia Rutherford, 36, was arrested and lodged at MultnomahCounty Detention Center on outstanding warrants for drinking in apublic place. The arrest occurred at 6 p.m. Oct. 7.

Cited and released for harassment was Laura Crabtree, 38, afteran incident at 8 a.m. Oct. 5 in the University Center Building. Thecitation was issued after earlier complaints, the most recent beinga complaint of an unwanted phone message at the same building Sept.20.

Collected complaints

A subject living off campus complained of harassing phone callsat 11 p.m. Oct. 6.

The late afternoon of Oct. 8 proved a busy one for attemptedburglary reports. There was an attempt to break into thetelecommunications office in SMSU and into a locked office in theEducation-Business Administration Building.

A locked office in Cramer Hall was entered, desk drawersrummaged and $80 taken. In another locked office in the samebuilding files were rummaged but there was nothing of valuetaken.

—Art Chenoweth