Man charged in MIT fraternity break-in, chase

[Ian David]

By Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff | March 24, 2007

At age 44, James P. Williams allegedly broke into higher education yesterday, entering MIT's Phi Delta Theta fraternity while almost everyone was asleep.

Williams is no late-blooming genius, but rather a would-be burglar caught in the act at 2 a.m. by fraternity members of the frat, according to the Suffolk district attorney's office.

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"A few of us got up and started looking for him," said John Cromwell, a fraternity member .

One of the members said he found Williams hiding behind a television, sending the man on a sprint for the door. He ran to an alley at the back of the house and into a black Buick LeSabre that had been reported stolen last Sunday, authorities said.

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A state trooper noticed him on Boylston Street. Williams allegedly sped down one-way streets in the wrong direction, ran red lights and stop signs, and hit a curb that popped both tires on the driver's side, causing smoke to come from the underside of the car. The car came to a stop at Warren Street and Harrison Avenue in Roxbury, almost 3 miles away. Williams was taken out of the car by police moments before it caught fire, Gully-Santiago said.

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