Students reported a string of crime, including a stolen motorcycle, on the 900 block of Ackerman Avenue over the weekend to Syracuse police, according to the police reports.

Two students living on Ackerman reported possessions went missing between 8 p.m. Saturday and noon on Sunday, according to the reports. Jeffrey Sweeney, a junior in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, told police Sunday that his father’s motorcycle was taken from his apartment at 914 Ackerman Ave., according to the report. 

Sweeney parked the yellow 2001 Kawasaki motorcycle with a New York state license plate in the garage adjacent to his house around 8 p.m. on Saturday. The bike was not locked up, according to the report. When he returned around 11 a.m. on Sunday, the bike was no longer there. 

Sweeney told police the keys were not with the motorcycle, according to the report. 

When police surveyed the scene of the burglary Sunday afternoon, they talked to Sweeney’s neighbor Andrew Nerviano of 917 Ackerman Ave. who said he had also discovered missing items from his 2002 Ford Explorer, according to the police report.

Nerviano, a junior television, radio and film major, said his iPod and his TomTom GPS system were missing. He told police he had likewise parked his car in the lot near his house around 8 p.m. on Saturday and returned at noon on Sunday to find the items gone, according to the report. 

Nerviano’s roommate told him he was woken up around 5 a.m. on Sunday to the sound of Sweeney’s motorcycle engine starting up, Nerviano said. But the roommate said he thought the neighbor was starting the motorcycle and was not suspicious that someone was stealing it, Nerviano said. 

Police talked to six neighbors on Ackerman Avenue, five of whom are Syracuse University students and one who is a student at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. None of them had seen any unknown persons or suspicious activity the previous night, according to the report. 

Both Sweeney and Nerviano said they have not heard any news from Syracuse police about possible suspects, and both cases are still open, according to the police reports.

Nerviano said he is frustrated his iPod and GPS were taken but feels worse that Sweeney lost his motorcycle.

‘It sucks,’ he said. ‘But I feel really bad for the other kid.’

rastrum@syr.edu

Published on November 15, 2010 at 12:00 pm