The first home game against Sam Houston State on Saturday brought eager tailgaters but slower crime rates, said LSUPD spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde.
Although he did not have Saturday’s specific numbers of arrests, Lalonde said gameday crime was fairly uneventful.
On Saturday, students received an LSU eTXT warning them of a battery committed by an adult male in the Student Union against a juvenile female.
The juvenile said she and an adult male bumped into each other and he grabbed her arm. Lalonde said the eTXT was sent to caution students, but upon further investigation, LSUPD officers said the juvenile admitted to embellishing the story.
Lalonde said the adult male was never located because there was about a 40-minute delay to the female reporting the incident, and no criminal charges were made.
“The initial reports of the situation seemed a little more serious than it actually was,” Lalonde said.