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Police Blotter

The following reports were compiled from notes in the Harvard Police log from September 18 to October 1. Police Blotter is a regular feature of The Crimson. Compiled by L. Joseph Garcia.

--September 23, 8:20 a.m.--Officials at the Medical School reported a double beam scale, engraved Med-School Trauma Unit, missing from the seely Mudd Building.

--September 23, 4:23 p.m.-A student told police his gold, colonial-style couch was missing from the basement of Claverly Hall. The couch was valued at $200.

--September 25, 7:12 p.m.--The manager of the Greenhouse Cafe in the Science Center reported a bank deposit bag containing $1440 stolen. The bag had been locked in a freezer for safekeeping.

--September 28, 12:05 p.m.--Police, the Cambridge Fire Department, and Building and Grounds (B&G) engineers responded to a fire alarm at the Biochemistry Laboratory. Lab assistants had placed plastic measures in a sterilizing oven, causing smoke.

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--September 30, 9:30 p.m.--Police arrested George J. Ekmaian of Sommerville and a juvenile at Austin Hall in the Law School for larceny.

Officers received reports that the suspects, part-time employees of B&G had stolen office and custodial supplies and hidden the articles outside the building. Police staked out the area, and when the two returned to collect the goods, they were arrested.

--September 30, 9:55 p.m.--A man posing as Stephen Weinberg, Higgins Professor of Physics, was arrested for trespassing in the Lyman Laboratory.

A janitor found the man in an office and asked him for identification. The man produced identification bearing the name Stephen Weinberg. The building manager recognized the man was not Weinberg and called the police.

Police estimated the total value of property stolen in the last two weeks at $7813, including 18 bicycles, seven wallets, a jewelry box and 25 cassette tapes.

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