Underage drinking, stolen property from Huber Art Center
University police charged Devon Lee Glover Jr., 18, of Reading, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 18 with receiving stolen property and underage drinking. Glover was with two other males and was stopped while crossing North Earl Street because he was carrying a large ceramic head which was believed to have been removed from the rear of the Shippensburg University Huber Arts Center. Glover told the officers that someone had handed him the head and that he decided to keep it as a souvenir of his visit to SU.
Hit-and-run leaves Mazda6 damaged
University police received reports on Oct. 20 of a hit-and-run accident. Justin F. Cain, 22, of Hazelton, Pennsylvania, came to the university police department to report that his vehicle had been damaged while it was parked on campus. Cain reported that he parked his 2016 Mazda6 Sedan in the C-7 commuter lot the same day. Cain later returned to his vehicle and discovered damage to the front driver’s side bumper and headlight area. The driver’s side headlight of the vehicle was cracked and there were gray scuff marks on the corner of the front bumper below the headlight. It is believed that a vehicle struck Cain’s vehicle while attempting to enter or exit the adjacent parking space. No information was left at the scene and the police were not contacted by the offending party at the time of the accident.
Fatal vision goggles stolen during homecoming
University police received reports on Oct. 21 of stolen property. A staff member from the Shippensburg University dean of students office came to the university police department to report a theft that had occurred on Oct. 17 during homecoming. The staff member reported that two pairs of fatal vision goggles that were being used during an information session at the homecoming tailgating activities were missing. At some point there were a total of six pairs of the goggles being used, and another staff member had packed up some of them when it began to rain during their use. This individual did not count the goggles when they were packed up and did not realize that any were missing at that time. On Wednesday, when the staff checked the container that the goggles are kept in, they discovered that two pairs were missing. The missing goggles are valued at approximately $99 per pair.
Hit-and-run accident damaged Subaru Forester
Paige M. Fletcher of Mechanicsburg came to the university police department on Oct. 21 to report that her vehicle had been damaged while it was parked on campus. Fletcher reported that her 2011 Subaru Forester had sustained damage to the right front bumper while it was parked in the C-7 commuter parking lot sometime between Oct. 12 and 17. Fletcher did not notice the damage until Oct. 17 and did not immediately report the damage until she was told to do so by her insurance company.
Property stolen at Keiffer Hall
Kayla Bethea of Kieffer Hall came to the university police department on Oct. 21 to report a theft of property from her residence hall. Bethea reported that she had placed carved wooden letters that spelled HELLO outside of her residence hall room in the hallway near her door. Bethea said that she last saw the letters on Oct. 17 at approximately 8 a.m. Bethea said she returned to her room at approximately 9 p.m. that night and noticed that the letters were missing.
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