Lafayette Online

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University police on Friday (April 22) arrested a student in connection with several campus thefts. Andrew Skyler Allen, 24, a senior in the College of Liberal Arts from Walkerton, Ind., was preliminarily charged with four counts of theft. Allen allegedly took an LCD overhead projector from Brown Laboratory of Chemistry, […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University police are investigating reported thefts during which cash and two laptop computers were taken from two fraternity houses. Lt. Fred Davis said the thefts, which occurred over about the last two weeks, were from Alpha Tau Omega, 314 N. Russell St., and FarmHouse Fraternity, 1028 W. State St. On […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University police on Tuesday (Nov. 30) arrested a 16-year-old Lafayette girl in connection with a series of thefts that occurred in various campus offices in the last week. Since Nov. 24 police had received five reports of stolen wallets and credit cards from offices in Stewart Center, Pfendler Hall, Dauch […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University police are investigating the theft of 60 computers from Stanley Coulter Hall on the West Lafayette campus. Lt. Fred Davis said Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) alerted police around 5:30 a.m on Saturday (Dec. 26) that computers in Coulter Hall had gone offline around 1:30 a.m. Purdue police were […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University police are investigating the disappearance of a painting from a first-floor study room in Meredith Hall. The oil painting is believed to have been removed from the residence hall sometime between Dec. 3 and Dec. 7, said Purdue police Lt. Fred Davis. The 39-by-54-inch painting, by area artist Phil […]

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s detectives are asking the public to help find a woman suspected of using a credit card stolen from a college student to buy gift cards worth $600 from Lafayette area merchants. On September 17th of this year, Cassandra McKeown, a student at St. Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, had her […]