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Students arrested in Mods
by Rachel Marder
Senior Editor
News | 4/8/08
Posted online at 4:45 AM EST on 4/8/08
Two students were arrested by Waltham police and Brandeis public safety officers in the early morning Sunday, March 30 following fighting that broke out during a party in the Foster Mods.
Witnesses estimated 11 officers, including seven from the Waltham Police Department, arrived to break up the unregistered party at about 2 a.m. after the Department of Public Safety received two calls reporting a fight. One of the callers suggested a gun may have been present, but no weapon was found.
Waltham police arrested 20-year-old Rashad Baldwin '11 for disorderly conduct. Detective Sgt. Tim King of the Waltham Police Department said Baldwin repeatedly ignored officers' request that he leave the scene at Mod 22, swore at the officers and incited the crowd. Baldwin denied each of these accusations and said no officer read him his Miranda rights.
"A bunch of lies were in the police report," Baldwin said of the Waltham Police Department's account of the incident.
A Brandeis officer arrested 21-year-old Walaa Sbait '08 for disorderly conduct soon after Baldwin's arrest, and both were taken to the Waltham Station that night and held in cells until about 5:30 a.m. Sbait declined to comment Monday night.
Sbait and Baldwin appeared at an arraignment March 31 and have pretrial hearings scheduled for May 8, the clerk's office in the Waltham District Court said. Baldwin said he is acquiring legal representation.
According to the Waltham police report, when officers attempted to break up the party, Baldwin repeatedly ignored an officer's command to leave and shouted: "I'm not fucking leaving. I'm waiting for my brother." Baldwin said he never uttered a vulgarity and the officer only asked him once to leave.
"I never told them I wasn't leaving," Baldwin said, adding that he only said he didn't live at the residence and that he was waiting for his brother, and one of his friends, to come outside. He said he then turned his back to the officer, began walking away and started to make a call on his cell phone to a friend to pick him up. It was then that a Waltham officer arrested him, he said.
Witnesses estimated 11 officers, including seven from the Waltham Police Department, arrived to break up the unregistered party at about 2 a.m. after the Department of Public Safety received two calls reporting a fight. One of the callers suggested a gun may have been present, but no weapon was found.
Waltham police arrested 20-year-old Rashad Baldwin '11 for disorderly conduct. Detective Sgt. Tim King of the Waltham Police Department said Baldwin repeatedly ignored officers' request that he leave the scene at Mod 22, swore at the officers and incited the crowd. Baldwin denied each of these accusations and said no officer read him his Miranda rights.
"A bunch of lies were in the police report," Baldwin said of the Waltham Police Department's account of the incident.
A Brandeis officer arrested 21-year-old Walaa Sbait '08 for disorderly conduct soon after Baldwin's arrest, and both were taken to the Waltham Station that night and held in cells until about 5:30 a.m. Sbait declined to comment Monday night.
Sbait and Baldwin appeared at an arraignment March 31 and have pretrial hearings scheduled for May 8, the clerk's office in the Waltham District Court said. Baldwin said he is acquiring legal representation.
According to the Waltham police report, when officers attempted to break up the party, Baldwin repeatedly ignored an officer's command to leave and shouted: "I'm not fucking leaving. I'm waiting for my brother." Baldwin said he never uttered a vulgarity and the officer only asked him once to leave.
"I never told them I wasn't leaving," Baldwin said, adding that he only said he didn't live at the residence and that he was waiting for his brother, and one of his friends, to come outside. He said he then turned his back to the officer, began walking away and started to make a call on his cell phone to a friend to pick him up. It was then that a Waltham officer arrested him, he said.
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