A UCLA student called police early Wednesday morning after she saw a man looking through the door of her second-floor balcony on Hilgard Avenue. According to a university police statement, the student heard a noise on her balcony about 3 a.m. and walked to the door to see what it was. When she approached the […]
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Offensive posters accusing SJP of anti-Semitism found on campus, in Westwood
This article was updated at 8:26 p.m. on Feb. 22. Students reported finding several posters around Westwood Sunday that depicted men with assault rifles standing over a masked man and named the group Students for Justice in Palestine with “#JewHaters” written below it. The posters were reported outside Ackerman Union, near Powell Library, in the […]
UCPD releases photos of suspect in UCLA employee robbery case
University police released photos Tuesday of a man wanted for robbing a UCLA employee at a Westwood ATM earlier this month. Police said the man came up to the employee at a Bank of America machine on Westwood Boulevard, then told the employee to give him money and that he had a gun. The employee […]
Couple pleads no contest to charges in fatal hit-and-run of UCLA alum
On Friday, an L.A. couple pleaded no contest to charges in connection with a hit-and-run that killed a UCLA alumnus in 2013, officials said. In late 2013, 23-year-old UCLA alumnus and filmmaker David Pregerson died after a car struck him while he was walking on Chautauqua Boulevard in Pacific Palisades. Marguerite Vuong, 67, pleaded no […]
UCLA employee robbed at Westwood ATM
University police are looking for a man who robbed a UCLA employee at a Westwood ATM on Thursday. The employee told police a man approached him from behind at a Bank of America automated teller machine at 6:15 p.m. The man then told the employee to hand over money, adding that he had a gun, […]
UCLA nurse found dead with gunshot wounds in Long Beach home
A nurse at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center was found dead in her Long Beach home Wednesday, police said in a press release. Paramedics found nurse Sayuri Jean Griffin, 57, and her husband, Salvador Trujillo, 57, in their home at about 3 p.m., according to a Long Beach Police Department press release. Griffin and […]
Rape reported at UCLA fraternity house on Gayley Avenue
This post was updated on Feb. 5 at 1:30 p.m. A woman reported to police that she was raped in Westwood this past weekend after attending a party at a fraternity house on Gayley Avenue. The rape took place between 11:15 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday in the 500 block of Gayley Avenue, according […]