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Laura Rippstein serves as a gatekeeper for the UCPD’s property department, where all evidence from police investigations and lost items from around campus are securely stored. The department houses more than 3,000 items, Rippstein said.

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From dangerous to bizarre, UCPD stores evidence - Daily Bruin

From dangerous to bizarre, UCPD stores evidence

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Lost purses, a dozen poisoned dead fish and every so often, a deadly weapon are stored in Laura Rippstein’s office. Rippstein works in the university police’s property department, a strictly secured room on the bottom floor of the police department’s building on Westwood Plaza.

https://dailybruin.com/2013/09/22/from-dangerous-to-bizarre-ucpd-stores-evidence/

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From dangerous to bizarre, UCPD stores evidence

By Fiona Kirby

Sept. 22, 2013 12:00 a.m.