Last week, authorities filed multiple mandatory report cases, reported two fires and cited one incident of hazing.
MSU disclosed the incidents under the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act, which requires universities to list reported criminal offenses publicly. The State News filed Freedom of Information Act requests for police reports of notable incidents, and under state law, MSU has three weeks to respond.
Mandatory reports can come from university employees such as staff, faculty and administrators, and do not necessarily involve police unless the victim chooses to file a formal complaint with law enforcement. MSU’s Department of Police and Public Safety Communications Manager Nadia Vizueta clarified that "Those reports do not automatically generate a police report. An incident appears only when it is reported directly to the university police department and determined to be a Clery-reportable crime that occurred within our Clery geography."
Below are significant entries from the past week.
Wednesday 4/1
A fire at the Packaging Building was reported that occurred around 10pm. Police say this was smoke coming from an oven, which was remedied by unplugging it, and they haven’t had any further incidents since then. In addition, a mandatory report of larceny of a bike was filed that occurred at Emmons Hall around midnight.
Two separate traffic incidents of no proof of insurance and no license were reported on this day. The first occurred at Mount Hope Road and Beaumont Road around 10pm, and the second involved obstruction of justice and occurred at Mount Hope Road and Farm Lane around midnight.
Two separate instances of damage to property were also reported on this day, which occurred in the days prior. One was a report of malicious damage to an exit sign at Wonders Hall that happened around 11pm on 3/30, and the other was a report of damage to a smoke detector at Akers Hall that occurred around 5pm on 3/31.
Thursday 4/2
Another fire was reported to have occurred at Holden Hall around 8pm, and involved an accidentally overloaded washing machine, which caused smoke.
