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Editor’s note: This article contains direct references to crimes of sexual violence.
As students start to wind down and get into the final weeks of school, some still have time to commit crime on campus.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department arrested two students for drinking alcohol outside Knoll Residential Center on April 27. UNLPD Assistant Police Chief Marty Fehringer said officers smelled marijuana on the students, who admitted to smoking. Police arrested both students, one student for minor in possession and the other for a narcotics charge with less than one ounce of marijuana.
A rape was reported to UNLPD on Saturday, April 26. Fehringer said the incident occurred in the late hours of April 11 at Harper Hall. Fehringer said he could not comment any further, and that the investigation is ongoing.
The wind became the suspect after a generator at East Campus lost its exhaust hose on Tuesday, April 22. After busting open the door, the wind knocked the hose connected to the generator. The generator still worked with $20 worth of damage. Fehringer said after first looking into the vandalization and thinking it was a person who broke the door and generator, they looked at the CCTV footage and found the wind caused the damage.
The Ice Box Hockey Rink was not impenetrable as a non-student stole a Sioux City Musketeers hockey jersey on Sunday, April 20, Fehringer said. Police were able to recover the jersey and cited the offender for misdemeanor theft.
What started as a simple traffic stop on April 21 turned into a long list of charges for a non-student outside of the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Officers pulled over the driver for not having license plates. The driver then gave a fake name to police, and was then cited with an MIP after officers found the driver’s true identity.
Two separate traffic stops lead to driving while intoxicated charges.
The first took place in the early morning hours of Tuesday, April 22. Police heard a car accelerate and squeal their tires right in front of them on Holdrege Street, by East Campus. Fehringer said that officers saw numerous people and smelled alcohol from inside the vehicle. The driver received a MIP and a ticket for careless driving. No one else in the truck was cited.
Officers made the next DWI arrest in the early hours of Saturday, April 26 on 17th and O streets. Fehringer said officers saw a car driving without headlights and pulled over the 20-year-old student. Police cited them with a DUI and driving without headlights on.
The next narcotics bust came at 12:46 on Friday, April 25, on North 16th and W streets involving another student. Fehringer said officers saw a car violate a stop sign and did a traffic stop. There, officers saw a water bong in plain view, and searched the rest of the car. There they found a fake ID and arrested the student for drug possession, fake identification and violating the stop sign.
On April 21, UNLPD got a call from a staff member about emails from a former student. None of the emails were threatening, however the student sent emails to the professor for over a month, despite the faculty member’s request for them to stop, Fehringer said. The emails were a constant barrage of questions about their time as a student, Fehringer said, and the faculty member reported concern about the spamming of questions, rather than any emailed threats.
UNLPD got a call on Sunday, April 20 from the Nebraska Union asking for assistance with a nonstudent adult who was verbally aggressive to a staff worker 2:54 p.m. Fehringer said that before police arrived on scene, the man had left, but found him shortly after. Police banned and barred him from campus, and given a “warrant service,” which allows officers to arrest the man if he comes back before his ban is up.
If you or someone you know is a survivor of sexual assault or violence, reach out to UNL’s Center for Advocacy, Response and Education at care@unl.edu or 402-472-3553, Institutional Equity and Compliance at 402-472-3417 or Counseling and Psychological Services at 402-472-7450 for additional resources.
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