By Jamie Miller and James Herold
Officers respond to smoker at RJF Hall
On Wednesday, May 15, at 6:23 p.m., the Grand Rapids Community College Police Department was dispatched to Raleigh J. Finkelstein (RJF) Hall in reference to a report of a disorderly male. GRCC Dispatch was advised by a GRCC employee that someone was in front of the RJF Hall main doors yelling.
An officer made contact with the person outside door 12A. The officer who first arrived at the scene reported that the person was smoking what appeared to be marijuana. GRCC Police told the person to put away whatever he was smoking as GRCC is a smoke-free campus. The person put away the item without incident. The person appeared calm and was not resistant to officers or yelling as reported.
The officer asked the person if he was a student, and he stated he was not. Police explained to him that they were called to reports of him yelling and behaving erratically. The person argued that he was not yelling. The officer asked him what he was doing on GRCC’s Campus, and he stated he was “just passing through and hanging out.” They advised the man that if he was not a student then he was not allowed to be on campus. The officer asked if he knew this, and he stated he did not know this fact.
The man stated he has never had a Michigan Driver’s License, so he did not come back on a Law Enforcement Information Network (LEIN) Secretary of State (SOS) search.
There was a National Crime Information Center (NCIC) warrant hit associated with his name out of the state of Georgia for failure to appear for Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army (VCSA), but was far out of pickup range. The physical description that accompanied the warrant did match the person’s physical appearance.
Police gave him a verbal warning that he was trespassing on GRCC property. Police explained that GRCC property was denoted by the blue, yellow and white placard signs. The man was also told that if he returned to campus, he would be subject to arrest. The man said he understood.
Police respond to vandalism at Sneden Hall
On Wednesday, May 29, at 10 p.m. an officer was dispatched to Sneden Hall due to reported vandalism.
The officer activated their body camera and made contact with another officer near room #312 in Sneden.
The officer reporting was advised by the other officer that the door was locked before he entered the room.
Once both officers were in room #312, the reporting officer observed a broken clock in the trash can left of the entrance door to the room. As the officers walked further into the room, they observed several broken black plastic pieces on the carpet in various areas of the room.
One of the officers noticed there was no clock on the wall and a screw on the wall by the ceiling which appeared to be where the clock came from.
In the far left corner of the entrance door, the officer also noticed a cream-colored fabric chair that had been ripped.
Nothing else was reported to be missing from the room or damaged.
After taking pictures of the clock and chair with their body camera. The officers made contact with someone on the scene who said that his girlfriend had shown him a photo of the damage.
The other officer asked if anyone had reported the damage and the person on the scene advised that a third-shift custodian had discovered the damage on Thursday, May 23 at approximately 10 p.m. The damage was reported to have occurred sometime between 10 p.m. on Thursday, May 23 and 3 a.m. on Friday, May 24.
It is unknown who caused the damage and was around $190 in damages.
