UMass-Boston student terrorized by men seeking marijuana
A UMass-Boston student was terrorized in her Dorchester apartment Wednesday night by three men who forced their way in and demanded marijuana they believed was stashed in her roommate’s bedroom, Boston police said.
The 19-year-old woman told police that a man knocked on her door on South Point Drive and told her that “Josh asked me to get his basketball shorts for him.’’
Seconds later, police said, the man pushed his way inside and grabbed her, putting his hand across her mouth. He forced her back into the apartment and at least two other men followed the first attacker inside, police said.
"'Where's Josh’s room? Where’s the weed?'" the man demanded of the woman, according to police. "'Where’s the weed?'"
The woman told her attackers that she did not know what they were talking about. The men then went into the room identified as belonging to “Josh,’’ according to police.
The woman told police she could hear them ransacking his room and then heard them ransacking her bedroom.
The men then used a cellphone charger cord and tied her hands and feet, police said. After she heard the men leave, the woman made her way into the apartment hallway where she was able to summon help.
“She was observed crying in the hallway,’’ police said.
The investigation is ongoing; no arrests have been made, police said.
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