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POLICE REPORT Each number on the map stands for a crime corresponding with numbered descriptions in the list below. DAY CRIMES (6a.m.-6 p.m.) » □ Violent K O Nonviolent I NIGHT CRIMES I (6p.m.-6a.rm) ■ Violent • Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS [33 Violent © Nonviolent These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department Compiled by Wendy Jeffcoat Wednesday, Feb. 5 ® FORGERY, COKER LIFE SCIENCES BUILDING, 701 SUMTER ST. The victim advised reporting officer L. Pathel that Renee Sturkie submitted false travel documents in his name and received reimbursement for travel in his name. Sturkie then forged his signature on the check and received the _ cash value. Estimated value: $458. ♦ Tuesday, March 18 ® LARCENY OF CHECKS, SIMS RESIDENCE HALL, 1501 DEVINE ST. The victim said someone took two checks from her checkbook. She said the checks were cashed outside of USC jurisdiction at Addam’s Bookstore and SC Bookstore. Reporting officer: T. Means. B INFORMATION, HARASSING PHONE CALLS, CAPSTONE RESIDENCE HALL, 902 BARNWELL ST. The victim said a female from Orangeburg started calling her cell phone and making comments trying to provoke her to fight. She also said the caller drove to Columbia to try to fight her. The victim was unsure of the caller’s name, but knows she attends Claflin College and has a relationship with her ex boyfriend. Reporting officer: G. Kerwin. ® AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF BOOK BAG, 15 MEDICAL PARK, 3555 HARDEN ST. (OFF MAP) The victim said someone broke out the rear passenger side window of her vehicle and took an L.L. Bean book bag, a cell phone, a cell phone charger, several textbooks and a Sony tape recorder. Estimated value: $416. Reporting officer: S. Alexander. Wednesday, March 19 (D LARCENY OF CREDIT CARD, MCBRYDE RESIDENCE HALL, 611 MARION ST. The victim said his South Carolina identification card and Structure credit card were stolen. A witness said she spoke with Maurice Stanfer, and in their conversation, he admitted to taking both of the victim’s cards. Reporting officer: J.M. Simmons. © FOUND CONTRABAND, 1215 BLOSSOM ST. The complainant said she found a plastic bag that contained a green leafy substance thought to be marijuana on the ground. Reporting officer: J.M. Simmons. ■® MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 509 PARK ST. The victim said someone hit a golf ball and damaged his vehicle. The ball cracked the driver side rear-view window and caused a large dent on the driver’s side. Estimated damage: $500. Reporting officer: C. Taylor. AU1U BKCAI\-ira, LAnUEl'll © OF CDS, BLOSSOM STREET GARAGE, 1300 BLOSSOM ST. The victim said someone broke out the passenger-side door window and took about 70 CDs, a CD player and a black CD case. A flathead screwdriver was found at the scene and taken into evidence. Estimated value: $1,425. Reporting officer: J.M. Simmons. INFORMATION, O HARASSING E-MAIL, SIMS RESIDENCE HALL, 1501 DEVINE ST. The victim said her ex roommate, Porschia Meadows, sent her a harassing e-mail. The victim provided a copy of the e-mail to the reporting officer, and the victim was informed to notify the USC Police Department if she receives anything else. Reporting officer: J.A. Clarke. Afghanistan CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 been coincidence,” Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers said. The military launched the operation after receiving “a mosaic of different intelligence inputs” of activity in the area, King said. Radio signals had been detected coming from ar eas above the villages, accord ing to military officials in Washington. Civil affairs specialists, who get to know and befriend local residents, also contributed in formation leading to the as sault. The operation was lea Dy an 800-soldier battalion known as the “White Devils,” part of the 82nd Airborne division, though additional ground sup port teams and special forces soldiers also took part, King and other Army officials said. Master Sgt. Richard Breach said he had no details on whether the troops, including Special Forces and civil affairs teams, had come across any enemy fighters or made any ar rests. There was also no word on casualties. But Gul Mohammed, head of the district administration who accompanied some of the U.S. forces, told The Associated Press that the group he was with made no ar rests after searching hundreds ofhomes. The operation was likely to continue for two or three days, said Lt. Cory 11 Angel, a U.S. military spokesman in Kandahar. The assault was one of the biggest in Afghanistan since Operation Anaconda just over a year ago, King said. Assessment CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 wells in southern Iraq had been set on fire. Officials said the wells numbered less than five. “Saddam Hussein is try ing to destroy the wealth of his own people,” Fleischer said. Outside the White House, some 50 anti-war protesters gathered in the chilly rain. “No blood for oil!” they chant ed. Fleischer said Bush signed an execution order before Wednesday night’s strikes and gave military leaders a verbal go-ahead after lengthy meet ings. The attack was greeted with criticism and regret across the globe, but Fleischer shrugged off the mostly nega tive world reaction. “The president understands and respects the thoughts of those who disagree but the - United States and the coalition of willing will not be deterred from the mission to disarm Saddam Hussein,” he told re porters. Fleischer announced that the Cabinet would meet with Bush on Thursday afternoon to get an update from the pres ident, who would urge the ad visers to press forward with his domestic agenda. On Wednesday night, Bush said the hostilities began with a narrow focus on “selected targets of military impor tance” and will grow to a “broad and .concerted cam paign.” After a brief night of sleep, the president talked to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice at 6 a.m. EST Thursday to learn of overnight events, said a senior administration official. <4 Illness CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 * people were sickened and five died. During the two days the in fected Chinese professor stayed onjthe ninth floor, three women from Singapore were guests on * the same floor. After they re turned home, they became ill. Singapore’s Health Ministry said all 34 Singapore SARS patients had been in contact with the three women. An American businessman from Shanghai al$p stayed on the ninth floor of the Metropole be fore flying on to Vietnam and falling ill, officials said. . “His name was Johnny Chen,” said Hoang Thuy Long, director of Vietnam’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemics. “When Mr. Johnny Chen came to Vietnam, he was actually in an incubation period.” Two days after his arrival, he was hospitalized at the Hanoi French Hospital, but asked to be moved to a hospital in Hong Kong where he died. A third Metropole guest dur ing that time was a 78-year-old woman from Toronto. She re turned home where she infected - her grown son. Both died. In addition, a Hong Kong man visited a friend on the ninth floor while the professor was there, health authorities said. That man has been identified ,,, as the Hong Kong “index patient” who spread the disease to the Prince of Wales Hospital, where dozens of workers have been sick ened, said Health Department . spokeswoman Sally Kong. It remains unclear how the dis ease would have spread in the ho tel.-One expert has speculated it could have spread from the air conditioning. Nanotechnology CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 “They’re not dangerous, they can’t communicate — there’s no life in them at all,” said Rick Adams, a chemistry professor at USC and director of USC’s NanoCenter. He said that some people might have a problem dis tinguishing the difference be tween reality and science fiction, and therefore, may believe the de tails of “Prey” and think they are true. Adams said nanoparticles have even been found in the soot of fire places, and there’s no need to fear them. “Frankly, I’m not afraid of nanoparticles,” he said. Panelist Steve Lynn, a English professor at USC, said nanotech nology has tremendously positive vibes in the culture right now. — “The only way to control it (technology) is to have more of it,” he said. 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