The Providence Police Department has been searching local hospitals for the suspects of the attempted mugging of Ben Donahue '09 on Monday night, according to a PPD incident report.
Donahue, who fended off two men who accosted him and demanded money while he was walking from the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center to Perkins Hall, said the PPD brought a suspect in to headquarters for questioning Tuesday. But Donahue has not been called downtown to identify the suspect, he said. PPD detectives did not return calls seeking comment.
Mark Nickel, director of University communications, told the Providence Journal in a March 15 article that Chief of Police Mark Porter would release a campus advisory because of the incident. However, as of press time, no advisory had been sent out to the Brown community. Following two robberies earlier this semester, e-mail crime alerts were sent the day after the incident. No information pertaining to Monday's incident was posted on the Department of Public Safety's Web site.
