Crime

In an e-mail to students, faculty and staff, Police Chief Robert J. Lenahan wrote that a female resident was accosted last night by two males who took her purse.

University Police are investigating the posting of inflammatory fliers at four campus locations. The nature of the fliers is unconfirmed, but are rumored to have depicted an illustration of a religious nature that some found offensive.

The criminal past of Ian Wallace, a graduate anthropology student, has caught up with him. In 2001, he attempted to firebomb two buildings at Michigan Technological University. He has been sentenced to three years in prison.

Police are investigating a bomb threat made against Stony Brook University last night. After a thorough search of the campus, authorities do not believe the threat to be legitimate, and both Suffolk County and university police are now looking into what they consider to be a hoax.

Police arrested Stony Brook University student Brooke Fadness on Monday for leaving the scene of a fatal car accident and not reporting it.

On Jan. 26, Stony Brook University senior Oluwole Owoseni was arrested and charged with stealing personal information and using it to apply online for a Sallie Mae loan and a credit card. Owoseni, 22, was charged with one count of first degree identity theft, two counts of unlawful possession of personal identifiers, and criminal possession of stolen properties.

Two robberies occurred in a three-day span near West Apartments. The victims, both female, were not harmed.

This past Sunday morning, 21-year-old Desmond Adedeji was pulled over on the campus’s South Drive and charged with driving while intoxicated. Adedeji will serve a six game suspension, according to a press release from head coach Steve Pikiell.

Stony Brook underreported campus crime in 2006, an audit by the New York State Comptroller’s office found. The comptroller found that Stony Brook failed to correctly report more crimes than any of the other SUNY schools that were audited.

Robert J. Lenahan, the Stony Brook's director of Campus Emergency Management, will be the new chief of the university police.

Stony Brook’s Campus Residences hired eight security guards in August to patrol the residential quads at early morning hours when student workers are off-shift.

A male student reported that at approximately 11:40 p.m. Thursday night, he was confronted by three males wearing dark clothing, skeleton masks and gloves along the path between the Computing Center and Circle Road.

A female student reported to police that on Thursday morning a man attempted to rob her while she and her friend were walking along Route 25A near the Stony Brook University train station.

A student was the victim of an attempted robbery on Sept. 6, in Roosevelt Quad's Wagner College. He was not seriously injured.

After receiving a call at 1:25 p.m., University Police and Suffolk County Police responded to reports of an alleged armed perpetrator. A little over two hours later, an "All Clear" text message was sent to members of the Stony Brook community.