Category Archives: Crime

By Scott B. Wong Daily Bruin Staff The U.S. Department of Education is not doing enough to ensure campus crime statistics are accurate and complete, according to one campus crime watchdog group. The department’s new campus-security Web site is designed to assist parents and prospective college students in comparing crime data for nearly 2,600 public […]

CRIME WATCH Petty thefts Two parking permits, one cellular phone, and several wallets and backpacks were stolen this past period. The total loss was $540. A key and pager worth a total of $20 were stolen from the Communications Technology Services office between Dec. 28 and Jan. 3. Grand thefts Police received a report Thursday […]

By Scott B. Wong Daily Bruin Reporter The university is facing charges of battery and wrongful termination after one employee claimed his supervisor struck then fired him after he complained of the incident. Garry L. Scarff, a former debt management counselor in the Student Collections Office, said his manager, Salwa Ayoub, hit him in the […]

  DAVE HILL/Daily Bruin Senior Staff Students get rowdy during finals week last year around the apartment complexes in Westwood. Police arrested 20 students. By Laura Rico Daily Bruin Contributor If administrators or university police have any say in the matter, students won’t be partying like it’s fall quarter of 1999 this finals week. “We […]

  UCPD Michael Negrete is still missing. By Linh Tat Daily Bruin Senior Staff Police are not much closer to solving the case of a missing UCLA student now than they were one year ago. Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of the day Michael Negrete, then a first-year student living in Dykstra Hall, disappeared. “The […]

By Scott B. Wong Daily Bruin Reporter Last winter, Jason Clark and five other African American students were questioned by university police at the Kerckhoff patio minutes before they were to perform in their African Arts Choral Ensemble. “They surrounded us and interrogated us and said they heard we were smoking marijuana,” said Clark, a […]

Police received reports of an attempted rape of a female UCLA student Tuesday afternoon. The incident occurred near the Sunset Canyon Recreation Center at the intersection of De Neve and Bellagio Drives. The victim reported that a 5- foot-6 to 5-foot-9 African American man wearing dark clothes pulled her toward bushes when she screamed and […]