Word: arrests
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...Joshua M. Elster '00 is arrested on charges of rape and battery of an unnamed undergraduate woman. Three days later, a spokesperson for the Harvard University Police Department admits his department inadvertently but illegally omitted the arrest from its public blotter...
...HUPD initially failed to fully report the series of events. There was originally no mention of either the woman's call to HUPD from UHS or Elster's arrest in its public...
...accordance with Massachusetts open records laws, the log, or blotter, must list all incidents requiring police attention in chronological order, labeling each incident with an index number. But one index number was missing at the time of both the call and the arrest, suggesting that reports of the incidents had been omitted...
Harvard University Police Chief Francis D. "Bud" Riley blamed the omission on human error. "The arrest absolutely should have been in the blotter," he said...
...school cafeteria, Kinkel, carrying a semiautomatic rifle and two pistols, had discharged 51 rounds of ammunition, fatally injuring two students and wounding 18 others. Afterward, when deputies drove to his family's gingerbread-trimmed A-frame in a wooded subdivision, they found his parents shot to death. After his arrest, a handcuffed Kinkel managed to get at a knife taped to his leg and lunge at an officer in a police interrogation room. He was subdued with pepper spray...