Nov
02
2009
McCarthy’s Halloween theft spree
Posted by: Juliana Brint in Vox Populi, tags: Crime, DPS, Georgetown, McCarthy, MPD, Southwest Quad, Theft
As we mentioned in our GUSA Roundup earlier today, there were a series of thefts in McCarthy the evening of Halloween.
According to Joseph Smith, the Associate Director of the Department of Public Safety, there were seven separate victims in McCarthy. Items stolen include “laptops, cell phones, an ipod, shoes, and sunglasses.”
Smith says the investigation is ongoing, and DPS is working with the Metropolitan Police Department on it.
This isn’t the first time the Southwest Quad has been the target of serial thieves recently; there were two separate theft sprees in the Quad this July.
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Did we let kids from the DC community go trick or treating in the quad again? I hate to jump to conclusions, but I recall this happening other times we let trick or treaters into the quad.
Security cameras in the halls, please? How about someone do SOMETHING to keep the students and their property safe.
This could have probably been avoided by locking your doors (something that smart GU kids from the suburbs surprisingly don’t understand). It was probably GU students in that same dorm who stole. You people blaming the university for this are most likely barking up the wrong tree.
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