Scammers are blackmailing UCLA students and convincing them to pay fake ransoms and fines, university police said. Students are reporting more confidence scams, in which scammers coerce victims into paying them after earning their trust, said UCPD Detective Brian Washburn. He said the number of confidence scam reports has significantly increased over the past year. […]
Category Archives: Crime
University police arrest man near Rendezvous after call
This post was updated April 20 at 10:10 a.m. University police arrested a man Wednesday night outside Rendezvous, a UCLA residential restaurant, near Rieber Terrace. Six police officers responded at about 10:28 p.m. to a call about an unauthorized individual on campus. Officers arrested the man, who is unaffiliated with UCLA, on charges of resisting […]
UCLA finance official arrested for alleged embezzlement while at CUNY
A UCLA finance administrator was arrested and charged with embezzlement and fraud in New York on April 7 in connection with his former position at another university. Carmine Marino, UCLA’s director of business and finance services who has held several positions within the City University of New York, was accused of stealing $81,000 from student […]
Man arrested for allegedly robbing apartment on Ophir Drive
University police arrested a man Wednesday suspected of robbing an apartment on Ophir Drive. The man allegedly broke into 10940 Ophir Drive on Tuesday night, said UCPD Lt. Richard Davis. UCPD took him into custody at about 4 p.m. Wednesday, he added. The man was transferred to the West Los Angeles Division of the Los […]
UCPD arrests man who inappropriately grabbed UCLA student
This post was updated March 29 at 2:02 p.m. This post and headline were updated March 29 at 8:26 p.m. University police arrested a man Wednesday night who allegedly sexually battered a UCLA student at the Luskin School of Public Affairs on Friday afternoon. Babak Rahimzadeh, 54, grabbed the student inappropriately near the third floor women’s restroom […]
UCPD investigating body found on Levering Avenue
University police found the body of a man in his 20s on Levering Avenue early Tuesday morning. The man was not a student, said UCPD spokesperson Nancy Greenstein. Officers found the body at about 7 a.m. between 901 and 919 Levering Ave. There appears to be no foul play in the death, Greenstein said. Detectives […]
Police find bodies in car on Veteran Avenue, suspect murder-suicide
This post was updated on March 15 at 2:30 p.m. Police discovered the bodies of a man and a woman in a parked car on Veteran Avenue on Wednesday morning. Authorities are investigating the death of the man and woman, who were in their 80s, as a murder-suicide, said a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson. […]