Archived Timely Warnings & Campus Advisories
2026
Campus Advisory - Missing Person - Update
The missing person has been located and is safe. The search has concluded. Disseminated at 5:28 PM on Thursday, 6/4/26. At approximately 11:57 AM hours, the Harvard University Police Department received a report of a missing person. This individual, Sung...
Timely Warning - Assault and Battery at Lowell House - Update
UPDATE The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) has positively identified the suspect in the incident that occurred at approximately 5:30 PM, Tuesday, May 19, in Lowell House. Earlier this afternoon, the suspect was arrested by a local law...
Campus Advisory - Reports of Shots Fired on Memorial Drive near River Street
At approximately 1:36PM the Harvard University Police Department received information from the Cambridge Police Department that a person armed with a gun fired shots in the area of Memorial Drive and River Street, possibly injuring two victims. The...
2025
Timely Warning - Explosion in the Goldenson Building, Boston
CLOSE OUT Arrest made. Earlier this morning, acting on a tip received by law enforcement, investigators positively identified and arrested two suspects. The arrests were made by a multi-jurisdictional team that included the Harvard University Police...
Timely Warning - Shooting on Sherman St Near Radcliffe Quad, Cambridge
At approximately 11:05 AM this morning, the Harvard University Police Department received a report from the Cambridge Police Department of a shooting on Sherman Street, near the Radcliffe Quad. HUPD officers were immediately dispatched to the area to...
2024
Campus Advisory - Scam Targeting Harvard University Affiliates
The Harvard University Police Department wishes to inform our community of an ongoing scam targeting Harvard University affiliates. The scam appears to originate from a Harvard email address and offers recipients free musical instruments, in exchange for...
Timely Warning - Adams House Burglary
Last evening (10/26/24) at approximately 11:58 PM, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) responded to a report of a burglary at Adams House, Randolph. In this incident residents reported that an unknown individual accessed their room through an...
2023
Campus Advisory - Email Scam
The Harvard University Police Department wishes to inform our community of an ongoing scam targeting Harvard University affiliates. The scam appears to originate from a Harvard email address and offers recipients free musical instruments, in exchange for...
Timely Warning - Burglary at Matthews Hall
This morning (7/24/23) at approximately 7:20 AM, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) responded to a report of a burglary at Matthews Hall. In this incident , residents reported that an unknown individual accessed their room through a window...
Timely Warning - Aggravated Assault and Battery at Harvard Business School
At approximately 6:00 AM on Monday, May 22, 2023, Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers responded to a report of an aggravated assault. Upon officers’ arrival, a victim reported that while walking on Gordon Road, towards Shad Hall, they...
2022
Timely Warning - Burglaries in River Dorms
On Saturday, October 29, 2022, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) responded to four (4) reports of unlawful entries into undergraduate residences; two (2) at Quincy House, one (1) at 20 DeWolfe St, and one (1) at Adams House. In all four...
Community Advisory - Burglaries in Yard Dorms - UPDATE
On Tuesday, July 26, 2022, HUPD detectives sought criminal complaints at Cambridge District Court for the unlawful entry into Wigglesworth Hall on July 11 th. The Court granted complaints against the offender for Breaking and Entering in the Nighttime and...
Community Advisory - Burglaries in Yard Dorms - Update
This morning, at approximately 1:00 AM, an HUPD officer on a directed patrol in response to a series of recent burglaries in Harvard Yard, observed an unidentified male behaving in a suspicious manner around several undergraduate residences. The officer...
Community Advisory - Burglaries in Yard Dorms
Over the last week, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) responded to two (2) reports of unlawful entries occurring in Mower Hall and Wigglesworth Hall. In both instances, occupants reported that while they were sleeping, someone climbed...
Community Advisory - Drink Spiking in the Cambridge and Boston Areas
The Harvard University Police Department has received information from the Boston and Cambridge Police Departments that they have seen an increase in reports of spiked beverages at bars in their cities. Drink spiking is when an offender adds a scentless...
2021
Community Advisory - Assault and Batteries Harvard Square area, Cambridge
Beginning Tuesday evening (8/24/21), four assault and batteries were committed against male victims in the area of Harvard Square. Three of the victims were graduate students and the fourth victim was unaffiliated with the University. In each of the...
2020
Community Advisory - Burglaries -Yard Dorms and River Houses
Over last weekend, 2/1/20 and 2/2/20, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) responded to six (6) reports of thefts occurring in River Houses and Yard dorms. In three (3) of the incidents, doors were either left unsecured or a key was left in the...