Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 announced Friday that he will personally look into the investigation of Marlon Byrd, a lieutenant in the Ithaca Police Department who faces allegations that he had assisted drug dealers. The accusations arose during the arbitration of another IPD officer in 2010 and 2011. 

An Ithaca man’s attempt to get himself out of legal trouble may have landed him in even more hot water. Mikhil Nunn, 20, was arrested on Nov. 4 for allegedly trying to bribe the victim to alter his testimony in Nunn’s upcoming robbery trial.

Cornell Police reported 13 incidents of exposures of a person and two incidents of public urination on campus last weekend. Police Chief Kathy Zoner said that more incidents were reported likely due to increased Cornell Police surveillance on campus, not an increase in illegal activity among students and community members.

There were two strong-armed robberies in Ithaca this Thanksgiving weekend, one on Thursday and one Sunday night.

Gleb Drobkov '12 challenges the notion that the administration's response to the recent string campus crimes has been inadequate.

Following three forcible touching incidents — one of which involved a strong-armed robbery — and several burglaries at Collegetown restaurants, the Cornell University Police Department is requiring students who regularly cross the suspension bridge to present their Cornell identification  cards to police and provide any information they may have about these incidents.

Ian Butler was committed to Rochester Psychiatric Center, a secure mental-health facility, on Tuesday after he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity for the murder of his mother.

The number of reported burglaries on campus fell from 36 in 2007 to 18 in 2009 — a 50 percent decline. The drop in burglaries accompanies a general decline in crime reported around campus.

Christopher Preusch ’12 led police on a chase in Depew Village, N.Y. early Saturday morning — after allegedly ramming the back of a parked car and seriously injuring two people — ending when he lost control of his car and careened through multiple rollovers, Depew Police said.

A woman was shot in the arm Wednesday evening in the Triphammer Mall parking lot, according to the New York State Police.