{"id":669046,"date":"2026-05-28T00:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669046\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T00:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T00:10:10","slug":"suspect-accused-of-dorm-break-in-assault-at-harvard-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669046\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect accused of dorm break-in, assault at Harvard arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA man accused of breaking into a dorm at Harvard University and assaulting a victim last week has been arrested, according to Harvard University Police.Authorities did not release the name of the suspect or the charges they are facing.Harvard police said the investigation involved &#8220;extensive coordination&#8221; with both local and state law enforcement agencies.NewsCenter 5 has reached out to the university for more information. A Harvard University campus alert went out on May 21, reporting an assault and battery at the Lowell House residence hall around 5:30 p.m.The alert stated the suspect entered the dorm by following another person into the building.The suspect reportedly approached a victim from behind and tried covering the victim&#8217;s mouth before forcing them into the room.&#8221;The victim screamed, prompting several nearby residents to exit their rooms, at which point the suspect fled the area,&#8221; the Harvard University Police Department wrote in the alert.The victim did not report any physical injuries.The MIT Police Department later issued a campus warning describing a similar incident at Sidney Pacific, an MIT residence hall at 70 Pacific St. in Cambridge.MIT police described the suspect as a white man with a thin build, standing about 5 feet, 9 inches tall, wearing a white T-shirt and dark-colored shorts, according to the alert. The department included a surveillance image of the suspect in the campus warning.It&#8217;s unclear if the suspect arrested for the Harvard assaults is the same person who committed the MIT incidents.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tCAMBRIDGE, Mass. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A man accused of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcvb.com\/article\/intruder-harvard-mit-dorms-cambridge-assault\/71363802\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> breaking into a dorm at Harvard University <\/a>and assaulting a victim last week has been arrested, according to Harvard University Police.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities did not release the name of the suspect or the charges they are facing.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard police said the investigation involved &#8220;extensive coordination&#8221; with both local and state law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p>NewsCenter 5 has reached out to the university for more information. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"Harvard Lowell House hall\" title=\"Harvard Lowell House hall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/090881fd-ed9c-41fd-a883-81f6060429eb.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Harvard University campus alert went out on May 21, reporting an assault and battery at the Lowell House residence hall around 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The alert stated the suspect entered the dorm by following another person into the building.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect reportedly approached a victim from behind and tried covering the victim&#8217;s mouth before forcing them into the room.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The victim screamed, prompting several nearby residents to exit their rooms, at which point the suspect fled the area,&#8221; the Harvard University Police Department wrote in the alert.<\/p>\n<p>The victim did not report any physical injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"intruder at mit\" title=\"Intruder at MIT\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/33095aa8-3517-405a-b8e9-1d42a08e2697.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The MIT Police Department later issued a campus warning describing a similar incident at Sidney Pacific, an MIT residence hall at 70 Pacific St. in Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>MIT police described the suspect as a white man with a thin build, standing about 5 feet, 9 inches tall, wearing a white T-shirt and dark-colored shorts, according to the alert. The department included a surveillance image of the suspect in the campus warning.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if the suspect arrested for the Harvard assaults is the same person who committed the MIT incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of breaking into a dorm at Harvard University and assaulting a victim last week has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43547,292116,3072,4,450,21550,292119,292123,292121,292122,27807,20231,292117,451,6135,2001,36688,1442,292118,3,292124,292120,10723,132759,14853,452,453,24370,28123],"class_list":["post-669046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-alert","tag-arthur-krogman","tag-assault","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-cambridge","tag-cambridge-district-court","tag-campus-warning","tag-dorm","tag-dorm-break-in","tag-harvard","tag-harvard-university","tag-harvard-university-police-department","tag-headlines","tag-man","tag-massachusetts","tag-massachusetts-institute-of-technology","tag-mit","tag-mit-police-department","tag-news","tag-pacific-st","tag-residence-hall","tag-room","tag-similar-incident","tag-suspect","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-victim","tag-wcvb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}