An allegedly intoxicated man stole up to four laptops and led Department of Public Safety officers on a foot chase Saturday before being arrested outside Shaw Hall, said DPS Capt. Andy Mrozienski.

The suspect was not a Syracuse University student, and it was not clear which laptops were stolen from Shaw or from Slocum Hall, where the suspect was first spotted, Mrozienski said. He would not provide the name or age of the suspect, who faced a total of 11 charges.

DPS charged the suspect with three counts of third-degree burglary, two counts of fourth-degree grand larceny, petit larceny, criminal trespassing, two counts of fourth-degree criminal possession of stolen property, one count of fifth-degree criminal possession of stolen property and resisting arrest.

Students called DPS at 7:20 p.m. on Saturday from Slocum and said there was a suspicious person who had stolen laptops, Mrozienski said. Students then called DPS from Shaw at 7:32 p.m. DPS officers saw the suspect leaving Shaw and stopped him, Mrozienski said.

‘The troops came in and surrounded the area, grabbed him, then he wanted to fight,’ Mrozienski said. ‘Then he ran, and he kind of ran around in a circle a couple times between Comstock, Ostrom, Euclid.’

DPS officers caught the suspect once, but he got away and officers had to catch him again, Mrozienski said.

The suspect was breathing heavily after the chase and transported to a hospital, Mrozienski said. A DPS officer who was ‘huffing and puffing’ was also taken to the hospital for precautionary measures, Mrozienski said. He declined to name the hospital to which both were taken.

mcboren@syr.edu

 

Published on November 8, 2010 at 12:00 pm