University police are searching for a man who was seen peeping into a UCLA student’s North Village apartment Tuesday morning. The student said a man looked into her apartment’s bedroom window on Roebling Avenue at 1:30 a.m., according to a UCPD alert. The student screamed and the man left on a north walkway and down […]
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Police investigate Navy SEAL for death of UCLA employee
A UCLA employee died in Santa Monica June 12 after an unknown man attacked him the day before. Kris Anderson, a 57-year-old UCLA Extension employee, who worked at the school for about 35 years, sustained several blows and a stab wound to his face June 11, according to the coroner’s report. Police arrested Theo Krah, […]
UCLA employee files lawsuit alleging UCPD racially profiled him
This post was updated May 26 at 3:21 p.m. A UCLA employee accused university police of racially profiling him during a 2014 arrest in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. Claudius Gaines, a UCLA Facilities Management worker, alleged a UCPD officer assaulted and falsely imprisoned him during a traffic stop in the North Village in 2014 because […]
Man sentenced to nine years in prison for multiple Westwood robberies
A man who has robbed six people in Westwood Village since September was sentenced Monday to nine years and four months in state prison. Dennis Toliver pleaded no contest to two counts of first degree robbery and robbery charges from previous arrest at a preliminary hearing at the Airport Courthouse Monday morning. In addition, a […]
Police find no threat in suspicious package outside school of medicine
Police determined the suspicious package reported at the David Geffen School of Medicine on Monday afternoon was not a threat. UCPD Lieutenant Richard Davis said someone reported a grocery bag outside the Jules Stein Eye Institute on campus about 4 p.m. Monday. The Los Angeles Police Department investigated the package and determined at 6:30 p.m. […]
Police close part of Westwood Plaza to investigate suspicious package
Police are investigating a suspicious package reported at the David Geffen School of Medicine on Monday afternoon. UCPD Lieutenant Richard Davis said someone reported a grocery bag outside the Jules Stein Eye Institute on campus about 4 p.m. UCPD arrived at the scene and contacted the Los Angeles Police Department to investigate the package. Westwood […]
UCPD arrest one of two men who allegedly robbed student at gunpoint
University police arrested a man Friday for robbing a UCLA student on Hilgard Avenue last Thursday. The student told UCPD Thursday night two men threatened her with a silver gun on Hilgard Avenue near Manning Avenue and stole her cell phone. The men then ran east on Manning Avenue. UCPD found one man the next […]