Crime Watch

Tuesday, March 4, 1997

Theft

Sometime between noon Feb. 23 and early morning Feb. 25, a thief
made off with a cellular phone and a global positioning unit from a
student’s backpack, together valued at about $300.

Last Wednesday, two credit cards were stolen from an unlocked
blue ’93 Honda Civic parked on Level 4 of Parking Structure 8
sometime between 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. There was no value given to
the credit cards taken.

Monday, an Anderson School student reported the theft of his
Hewlett Packard Omnibook laptop from his locker located in the C
Building.

Sometime between Friday and Sunday, a thief picked the locker’s
lock and stole the $6,000 laptop computer stored within.

In the last incident reported, an audiophile stole some stereo
equipment from a red ’89 Jeep Wrangler. The equipment, valued at
$150, was taken while the vehicle was parked on Level 4 of Parking
Structure 2 sometime between 6:30 p.m. last Wednesday and 5 p.m.
the next day.

Vandalism, no stranger to campus parking lots, also paid a visit
last week.

Sometime between 12:30 a.m. and 8 a.m. on Saturday, vandals
smashed the passenger side window of a blue ’87 Honda Accord parked
at 510 Landfair Ave. Before leaving, vandals also dented one of the
car’s doors with a cinder block, police reported.

Child abandonment

Police reported a child abandonment involving a university
student at the University Apartments South.

Friday morning, university police officers received a 911 call
reporting two children wandering unattended near the street. The
children, 5 and 2, were found by police walking down the street by
themselves.

The children were placed in protective custody and the matter
was turned over to the L.A. County Department of Children’s
Services.

While no criminal charges have been filed, the Children’s
Services Department will be "working" with the family, police
reported.

Compiled from the university police media log between Feb. 25
and March 3 by Scott P. Stimson, Daily Bruin Contributor.