Cambridge Police report:
On 9/30/08 at 6:18 PM, an employee at a kiosk in the CambridgeSide Galleria Mall reported being punched in the stomach and threatened by an employee who is known to him from another kiosk.
Earlier:
Keep your credit cards - and kids - close at CambridgeSide Galleria.
Cambridge Police report on four recent incidents at CambridgeSide Galleria:
On Friday morning, an employee of the Old Navy Store allegedly took a customer's debit card and used it to buy a cell phone at the Mobile Solution Store. The customer caught up with the employee at the Lechmere T stop and confronted her. The woman gave the card back, but when the victim demanded to know about the unauthorized purchase, the clerk "struck the victim in the chest area." She then fled, leaving the cell phone behind.
On Saturday afternoon, a Boston resident told police a woman managed to get her credit-card information at the Sephora store, then left.
On Sunday afternoon, a clerk at an unidentified second-floor store allegedly slapped a customer when she didn't move out of his way fast enough for him:
The victim was shopping with her two children and had a visible red mark on her right cheek. The suspect admitted that he struck the victim and felt he did nothing wrong because he told her to move. The suspect was informed that he would receive a summons in the mail.
Also Sunday afternoon: A woman trying on clothes at Aeropostale reported somebody stole her handbag from the dressing room.
Shane Curcuru begins to wonder if the Apple store at the Cambridgeside Galleria is more popular than Lenin's tomb.
Welcome back to Apple Nerds Held Hostage, Day 4. Shane Curcuru took this photo (yes, with his own iPhone) outside the Cambridgeside Galleria Apple store around 6 p.m. today.
One can only hope this was a new line at the Cambridgeside Galleria today and not a bunch of people left over from yesterday.
Looks like the Cambridgeside Galleria thug crew is getting bolder these days. Cambridge Police report on a May 23 robbery there:
A male juvenile victim reports that while standing in the checkout line in Best Buy at the mall, he was surrounded by three black male suspects, ages 17-19. One of the suspects motioned that he had a weapon, reached into the victim pocket and stole cash.
He also had a gold chain ripped from his neck, police say.
He reported that one of the suspects had waved a black knife in his face and threatened him.
Yojimboo reports:
I was using my laptop at Cambridge Galleria (their food court is providing us with free wireless Internet) this early evening. Then, one short black boy in a red jacket passed by, quickly lifted my computer and ran away. Some kids followed him, so they seem to be a group. ...
Joanne Woodward captured a couple of people waiting for copies in Harvard Square last night. More of her photos.
Maria Varmazis photographed the line outside the Harvard Coop and Hogwarts Square in general:
As it got closer to midnight, Mass Ave in the entire Harvard area was completely swamped with people. I've never ever seen this area so crowded.
A jerk came to Harvard Square with a megaphone to yell out spoilers. He didn't leave Harvard Square with a megaphone.
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