Earlier this evening, Vox received a report that two arrests had been made for an alleged theft at Vital Vittles. According to Corp CEO Elizabeth MacGill (COL ’14) and a witness on the scene, a cashier and a manager identified a suspect matching the description of a man suspected of a Mar. 17 crime and pursued him immediately.

Two employees chased the alleged thief, while another stayed behind to call COO Rashaad Eshack (SFS ’14) and the Department of Public Safety. According to a bystander, the employee tried calling DPS multiple times before they received an answer. When the employee was able to report the incident, she said that it was possible that the suspects were still in the Leavey building.

At 6:48 p.m., Vox saw two individuals being handcuffed in the lobby of the Leavey Center by DPS. One of the individuals arrested may match the descriptions posted in earlier thefts of both cash and goods, a 5’8″ light-skinned black man with a goatee, in a baseball cap, jeans, and a black jacket. He was accompanied by a white woman, 5’2″, petite with brown hair, wearing china blue-patterned pants and a large black jacket. They were taken in handcuffs by two officers to the bus stop outside Darnall, where they were put into a Georgetown University Police car and driven away.

MacGill confirmed that the man who was arrested matched footage from an earlier theft a week and a half ago when he stole an iPad from an employee in the back room, but it is still “hard to confirm” whether the suspects are the same from the earlier incidents. While the woman did not participate in the earlier theft, he entered the store with her during the first incident, and they were found and arrested together this time around. According to MacGill, nothing was stolen during the incident.

“We are happy to report this victory for the company,” MacGill said.

As of this posting, DPS was unavailable for comment. Vox will keep you posted with updates as the story develops.

Additional reporting by Ryan Greene

At approximately 2:35 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon, a student was robbed between 33rd and Prospect Street. The culprit approached the student from behind, assaulted her, and stole her purse before fleeing the scene.

Though the student only reported the incident to the Department of Safety on Wednesday evening, she immediately reported it to the Metropolican Police Department, who responded to the scene of the crime. MPD is responsible for the investigation and is looking into the incident. The theft comes about one month after a similar assault in the area on May 15.

DPS requests that anyone who has information regarding this incident, or who noticed any suspects before or after the incident, contact them immediately at (202) 687-4343.

At approximately 9:15 a.m. today, a University employee reported to the Department of Public Safety that a laptop was stolen from a classroom in the White Gravenor Building.

According to the public safety alert, DPS investigators have deduced that forced entry was made to steal the laptop. The employee had left the laptop in its case in the locked classroom last Thursday at 1:15 p.m.. When she returned this morning, the burglary was discovered. There are no known suspects in the incident, which occurred at some point between Thursday afternoon and this morning.

DPS requests that anyone who has information regarding this incident, or who noticed any suspects before or afterward, contact them immediately at (202) 687-4343.

According to the Department of Public Safety, a University employee’s purse was stolen in St. Mary’s Hall yesterday afternoon. At approximately 4:00 p.m., the employee left her office for roughly fifteen minutes. When she returned, she discovered that her purse, including her wallet, credit cards, and cash, had been stolen. The thief or thieves entered through the front door of the office, and there was no sign of forced entry, according to the public safety alert. MPD responded to the scene, and is in charge of the investigation.

There are no known suspects, but DPS did say that one of the employee’s credit cards was fraudulently used at various stores.

DPS requests that anyone who has information regarding this incident or who noticed any suspects before or after the incident, to contact them immediately at (202) 687-4343.

Another year, another laptop theft.

According to an email sent to the University community early this morning by the Department of Public Safety, an unidentified suspect stole a laptop from an “uninhabited” room in Harbin Hall. According to the email, a suspicious person was seen in the building, but canvassing of the area by both DPS and Metro Police failed apprehend or identify him. The suspect is described as a black male between the ages of 19 and 21, of thin build, and about 5’8″ to 5’10″. He was seen wearing “a navy blue ball cap with a red bill, a black hooded jacket, blue jeans rolled at the cuffs, and black boots.”

The report does not specify whether the door to the room was locked, but it does include that “there were no signs of forced entry.” Anyone with information regarding this incident is should call DPS at (202) 687-4343.

Our very own Leo O’Donovan Dining Hall is a bit of a bonding experience for all freshmen and sophomores, who must submit to the mandatory meal plan, barring a few exceptions.

Vegetarianism doesn’t get you a pass on Leo’s, but you bleeding heart animal lovers will be pleased to hear Peta2 voted Georgetown the 10th most vegetarian friendly campus of 2008. Though we have yet to repeat the performance, Leo’s vegetarian options aren’t all that bad. In fact some Leo’s-weary diners become what we like to call “Leo’s vegetarians,” in self-defense from the dubious post-Thanksgiving turkey mélange.

Anyway, whether you carry out a (totally safe) Grab ‘n Go sandwich, or enjoy your chicken fingers beneath Leo’s nod to the Sistine Chapel, surviving Leo’s requires an iron-clad will stomach and a reliable Tupperware set. Not to mention the well-developed knack for double-think that allows students to smuggle out a backpack full of nauseating food after every meal.

Luckily for all you newbies, some of your fellow Hoyas have compiled their favorite Leo’s recipes (we like to call them coping mechanisms) in O’Donovan’s On The Waterfront. Since these tips won’t get you through the whole year unscathed, here are Vox‘s tips for dealing with Leo’s, originally compiled by former Voice Editor Juliana Brint:

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View Campus Crime Watch: January 31 – February 20 in a larger map

Tuesday, 8 February 2011

10:00 AM – THEFT (Walsh). A female student went into a restroom on the fourth floor and placed her wallet on the counter. She left the area and forgot to take her wallet. When she returned to the restroom, the wallet was no longer there.

12:17 PM – HARRASSMENT (Lauinger). A female (Non GU student) was stalking and continuously emailing a student. The suspect was identified and was brought to the DPS office where she was barred from campus.

2:46 PM – THEFT (Darnall). A student secured his bicycle with a u-lock. When he returned to retrieve it, he found that an unknown person had cut the lock and stolen his bike. No suspects or witnesses have been identified.

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A former Georgetown University Hospital employee was convicted last week of stealing more than $86,000 from a hospital foundation.

Frankie Renee Kennedy, who was employed by the hospital from 1998 to 2010, will spend five months in prison for the theft.

Kennedy ran the hospital’s Transplant Institute Foundation, an institution that helped poor transplant patients.

Since 2005, Kennedy wrote herself checks from the foundation and used a doctor’s signature stamp, without his knowledge, to sign the checks.

Kennedy plead guilty in last November and has agreed to pay full restitution.

If the producers of C-SPAN and the Real Housewives franchise created a reality show about local politics, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E would be the pitch. Monday’s episode featured Metropolitan Police Department Lt. John Hedgecock flattering fake ID craftsmen and a spirited defense of the Nation’s Triathalon. Of course, drunken students and Philly P’s also made appearances.

I wanted to look up crime statistics, but my laptop was stolen

Crime is down 10 percent from last year, according to Hedgecock. (And yes, that includes the recent thefts on and off campus.) Although there have been six more street robberies, the number of burglaries has decreased.

Lame-duck Commissioner Aaron Golds (COL ’11) asked Hedgecock about the recent crime wave around campus, specifically mentioning last week’s attempted abduction of a student. Hedgecock’s response referenced similar crime waves at American University and Catholic University.

“We are examining them to see if there is any link,” he said.

An audience member also asked Hedgecock about police action against drunkenness and public disorderliness. Inconsistent enforcement, Hedgecock said, makes it difficult to crack down on certain problems, such as under-age drinking.

“These fake IDs, they are really good,” Hedgecock said.

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Two more laptops were stolen this week, according to a University public safety alert.

After a female student fell asleep shortly after midnight on Monday, an unknown suspect broke into her Harbin dorm room and stole her laptop. Another student, who lives in Alumni Square, discovered that his laptop was stolen sometime between 10 p.m. on Tuesday and 4 a.m. on Wednesday.

In both cases, the residences’ doors were not locked.