In response to a series of crimes near their homes, a group of students living in a UCLA apartment complex south of Wilshire Boulevard are asking officials to increase security measures and to consider forming a neighborhood watch. The University Village houses thousands of UCLA graduate and professional students on two strips of land south […]
Category Archives: Crime
UCLA student arrested for allegedly committing multiple sexual assaults
Police arrested a UCLA student Wednesday for allegedly committing at least two sexual assaults over the past two years.
Number of reported sexual assault incidents at UCLA increased last year
The number of reported sexual assault incidents on the UCLA campus, particularly forcible rapes, increased significantly from 2012 to 2013, according to an annual crime statistics report released Friday by university police. The 2013 UCLA Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics and Annual Fire Safety Report listed 13 reported forcible […]
UCPD found girl missing from UCLA Medical Center
This post was updated at 3:50 p.m. on Sept. 25. Police said they have found a 17-year-old girl Thursday who left the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Monday. Sarah Abera had last been seen at 10:17 a.m. Monday on the fourth floor of the hospital, according to a university police alert. Abera lives in Santa Monica and […]
Two Inglewood men arrested in connection with July burglary
University police arrested two Inglewood men this week after finding that one of them matched a fingerprint found at the scene of a July burglary on Roebling Avenue. A UCPD officer found a fingerprint on an apartment window where police believe a thief entered on July 30. A detective then processed the print through federal […]
UCLA student reports two peepings into Roebling Avenue apartment
A UCLA student reported two peepings into her student apartment on Roebling Avenue last week, police said. The student saw a man looking into the window of her apartment about 8 p.m. on Sept. 8, according to a university police report. The man left after he saw her looking back at him. The student then […]
Man arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting woman he hired as escort
Los Angeles police say a 25-year-old man sexually assaulted a woman he hired as an escort in Westwood about two weeks ago. Police said Virenkumar Patel met the unidentified woman on Levering Avenue early on Aug. 31 after connecting with her on an escort website and offering to pay her about $800 per hour. Last […]