An alleged rape, burglary and robbery in the North Village were reported to police Thursday morning after the quarterly Undie Run. Several other crimes were also reported in Westwood during and after the event.
The Los Angeles Police Department reported an alleged rape on Glenrock Avenue, between Ophir Drive and Levering Avenue, just after midnight Thursday morning.
University police officials were unavailable for immediate comment. An LAPD spokesman said no additional information was available about the alleged rape.
The Undie Run, a quarterly tradition, attracted more than 10,000 people to Westwood Wednesday night, university police said. Another 3,000 to 4,000 people joined later.
At about 1:15 a.m. Thursday, two UCLA students were walking back to their apartment at 433 Midvale Ave. when they saw their door was open, according to a UCPD report.
The students walked into their apartment and saw a man trying to take one of their laptops, police said. The man allegedly ran out of the apartment after one of the students confronted him.
Officers saw a suspicious car and performed a traffic stop, detaining an 18-year-old man and a male juvenile. The man, Paul Lawrence Fuller, was arrested for strong arm robbery just before 4 a.m. Thursday and was booked two hours later at the Inmate Reception Center in downtown Los Angeles.
Fuller, who is not affiliated with UCLA, was released on bond about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. He will appear June 30 at the Los Angeles Superior Court Airport Courthouse, a court spokeswoman said.
Later, a burglary was reported on Glenrock Avenue. Police said an unknown person entered a UCLA student’s apartment between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. Thursday and stole a laptop and cell phone while the residents were sleeping.
The burglary was reported on the same block of Glenrock Avenue as the alleged rape. It is unclear whether the two cases are related.
Two UCLA students also reported grand thefts on campus just after midnight Thursday at Powell Library and the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, according to UCPD logs.
A robbery was also reported about 3:10 a.m. Thursday at the corner of Broxton Avenue and Le Conte Avenue. No additional information was immediately available about the robbery.
Emergency services also handled two medical calls for alcohol intoxication Thursday morning, and UCPD arrested another two students for public intoxication.
UCPD increased its presence at the Undie Run spring quarter and brought in additional university police officers from UC San Diego, UC Irvine, UC Riverside and UC San Francisco because it anticipated greater participation after high attendance at the event in winter quarter.
Compiled by Sam Hoff, Bruin senior staff.
Daily Bruin, you need to relax with your use of “alleged”. It doesn’t make you sound any more official. In fact, it just makes the Daily Bruin look silly. To describe every single crime that gets reported to the police as an “alleged rape”, “alleged burglary”, “alleged robbery”, “alleged grand theft”, etc. like you did in the map is insulting to the victims. Everything isn’t “alleged”… crime does actually happen, you know?
Well, not until they’ve been proven in court they haven’t… We use the term “alleged” for the same reason that we refer to people who’ve been arrested at the scene of the crime as “suspects” and for the same reason that we can’t hold people indefinitely long in jail without a trial. It’s just the way it is.
So you are saying the crime stats that get put out don’t reflect actual crimes if they aren’t proven in court? If nobody gets arrested, then a crime never has a chance to get “proven in court”. Saying everything is an “alleged crime” is much different than saying someone has been arrested for “allegedly” committing that crime. If someone punches you in the face, gives you a black eye, and you report it to the police, do you really think it’s accurate to say it was an “alleged assault”? You report your bike stolen and bring your cut cable lock to the cops as proof… an “alleged theft”? Your car gets keyed… an “alleged vandalism”?
The crimes occurred. To say it was “alleged” is implying the victim is lying. When people get arrested, it is for “allegedly” committing a crime. They don’t get arrested for allegedly committing an “alleged crime”.
It’s just the way it is? I don’t think so. I think the way it is is the Daily Bruin is just trying to sound like they are reporting the news like the real media, but they really don’t have a clue what they are talking about.
“So you are saying the crime stats that get put out don’t reflect actual crimes if they aren’t proven in court?”
Yup. Correct.
It’s just a way to show respect to due process of law, really. I get the whole “separating crime and criminal” thing, but until I go before a jury with sufficient evidence, my testament (both the “who” and the “what”) doesn’t mean a thing in the eyes of the state. It’s all about perspective.
Using the term “alleged” doesn’t imply much other than “someone said it happened, but it hasn’t technically been proven yet”. It does take a great deal of inferring, however, to come to the conclusions that you’ve come to.
You are confusing “showing respect to due process” with “reporting the news”. I don’t know what la-la land you are in, but the vast majority of crimes never make it to a jury because the perpetrator isn’t caught. Just because they aren’t proven in court doesn’t mean those crimes are only “alleged”; those are real crimes that actually happened. There’s still a kid in the hospital who got hit by a driver who didn’t stop (an “alleged” hit and run?), a broken window at your house with a brick on your living room rug (“alleged” vandalism?), a woman in the hospital for being brutally raped and beaten (“alleged” rape?), the bank robbery caught on video (“alleged” robbery?), etc. If you think it takes a “great deal of inferring” to conclude that a dead guy with a bullet hole in his chest was murdered (not “allegedly” murdered), then you need a little more life experience and common sense.