According to the report, Cicero was observed rambling about Arabs at Cambridge Hospital and claimed one worker had tried to stuff a rag down his throat. Asked why he left Harvard, Cicero became agitated: “They gave an ultimatum or a buyout—get rid of you—put [in] the minorities.”

A jury trial in Cicero’s case was scheduled to begin next Monday, but Twohig said last week that he was filing for a continuance as his expert witness would not be available on that day.

Crimes Of Our Times

Other memorable campus incidents and their resolution.

Angello Dalla Santa

Arrested: Nov. 20, 2001.
Convicted in July 2003, on one felony count of marijuana trafficking

The “pot-dealing chef,” Dalla Santa was accused of trafficking nearly 300 pounds of marijuana, estimated to be worth $500,000. Dalla Santa was, at the time of his arrest, manager of Winthrop and Lowell dining halls.

Dalla Santa plead guilty to a reduced charge and was sentenced last summer to a year in jail without the chance of parole. Dalla Santa was incarcerated at the Middlesex House of Corrections in Billerica, Mass.

Brian M. Wan, Class of 2005.

Arraigned: June 20, 2002.
Charged with six counts, including breaking and entering, larceny and larceny over $250. Sufficient facts for a guilty verdict found, but case was continued until 2005.

Police searched the dorm rooms of Wan and another Greenough resident, Michael D. Wang, in the spring of 2002 and turned up items that other Greenough residents had reported missing over the previous months. According to police records, Wan hatched elaborate schemes to steal, among other items, his roommate’s new computer.

According to court records, in 2002 Wan agreed to a plea deal in which he would confess to sufficient facts to warrant a guilty verdict but would have his case continued without a finding until 2005. He was ordered to pay $4,000 in restitution, and was placed on probation.

Wan and Wang left Harvard following the investigation and according to Harvard registration information did not return.

In January of last year, Wan’s attorney filed a motion seeking to overturn his client’s plea, arguing that it was having the unintended effect of preventing Wan from regaining admission to Harvard. No action was taken on the motion.

Alexander Pring-Wilson