UCLA officials are warning students seeking off-campus housing to read housing contracts thoroughly and pay fees using traceable forms of payment to protect against the increasing threat of housing scams. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students are being targeted by housing scammers more than usual in the past few years. (Laura Uzes / Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Oct. 17 at 9 p.m. The Los Angeles Police Department will start testing an unmanned drone system over the course of a year after the first drone receives federal approval. Read more...
Photo: In August, Los Angeles Police Department officers answered residents’ questions about the department’s proposal to use drones to aid in situations in which police officers’ lives may be at risk. The Los Angeles Police Commission approved the proposal Tuesday. (Keshav Tadimeti/Daily Bruin senior staff)
University police are searching for a man who allegedly burglarized UCLA students’ off-campus apartment on Oct. 1. The man entered an apartment on the 600 block of Gayley Avenue from its rear entrance at 2:40 a.m. Read more...
A judge postponed Tuesday the trial for two former college students charged for possible involvement in the murder of a UCLA student, after the defense attorney said she needs time to review evidence recently made available. Read more...
Photo: A trial for two former college students who were arrested in connection with the death a UCLA student has been postponed because new evidence was recently made available to a defense attorney. Victor Avila, the deputy district attorney prosecuting the case, objected the motion, saying the defendant’s attorney had plenty of time to review available evidence. (Daily Bruin file photo)
More aggravated and sexual assaults were reported on or near campus in 2016 while the number of burglaries stayed around the same as 2015, according to an annual university report. Read more...
This post was updated Sept. 14 at 8:30 a.m. A 26-year-old female UCLA student was found dead in Westwood campus housing by university police Wednesday night. Read more...
University police are searching for an individual caught peeping in a woman’s restroom Wednesday morning. The individual allegedly held a gray iPhone under the door of a stall in a woman’s restroom at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs building while a woman was inside at 11:36 a.m., according to a UCPD alert. Read more...
