A 26-year-old man was arrested in the Village on Thursday night after he illegally entered the residence hall and later a student's unlocked room in Village A. The man, Matthew Razani of Waltham, was charged with trespassing and placed in protective custody because he appeared to be intoxicated, according to Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan in an interview with the Justice.

Callahan said that Razani apparently followed someone into the building when the student swiped his or her card and then opened the unlocked door of an occupied room. The occupant of that room sent a text message to a friend in the building, who came to the room. Razani left, and the students called 911 at approximately 11:14 p.m.

Campus police responded and apprehended Razani on the fourth floor of Village A. According to Callahan, the students and officers both "discerned an odor of alcoholic beverage emanating from his body." Campus police arrested Razani for trespassing and transported him to the Waltham Police Department, where he was placed in protective custody due to intoxication.

Callahan said that the Assistant District Attorney reviewed the University's police report to determine if additional charges should be placed. Razani was arraigned in court on Friday, where he was charged with one count of trespassing, according to the City of Waltham's public records.

The report filed by campus police said that the man was initially described as a tall black male in his mid-20s, dressed in all black.

Dean of Student Life Rick Sawyer sent an email to the student body late Friday afternoon in the wake of the incident warning students to take precautions such as securing outdoor doors to residence halls and locking inner room doors.

"Please be concerned about persons who do not look familiar waiting to be let into outside doors," he wrote.

Callahan added that Sawyer's email should be considered educational rather than alarming and that he and Sawyer wanted to remind students to lock their doors even though many students "are so comfortable on campus that they leave their doors unlocked."