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. Read more...
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February 6, 7:26 pm
Couple pleads no contest to charges in fatal hit-and-run of UCLA alum
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February 6, 7:18 pm
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. Read more...
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February 6, 6:56 pm
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. Read more...
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February 5, 12:57 am
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. Read more...
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January 29, 3:59 pm
Former UCLA water polo player accepts plea deal for assault charges
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge sentenced a former UCLA water polo player to 180 days in jail and five years of probation Thursday after he pleaded no contest to one charge of assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury and one charge of making a criminal threat. Read more...
Photo: Hakop Kaplanyan (center), 20, is accompanied by his lawyer, George Mgdesyan (left) as he waits to be sentenced. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
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January 23, 9:31 am
Former UCLA Anderson School employee sentenced to 3 years in prison
A Los Angeles judge sentenced a former UCLA employee Thursday to three years in state prison for sexual battery and taking “upskirt photos” of fellow employees. Read more...
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January 14, 2:29 am
Man arrested in connection with UCLA alumnus stabbing to stand trial
A judge ordered a Los Angeles man Tuesday to stand trial for the attempted murder of UCLA alumnus John DeMartini on Christmas Eve. Edris Lamont Banks, 46, appeared in front of L.A. Read more...