By Sam Hoff The University of California recently said it spent almost $4.5 million on legal fees to defend itself and a UCLA professor in lawsuits stemming from the death of a research assistant in a 2008 UCLA laboratory fire. Read more...
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Four laptops and an iPod were stolen from UCLA student apartments in two separate burglaries Monday evening and Tuesday morning, university police said. Between 11 p.m. Read more...
University police released a sketch Wednesday of a man wanted for entering a UCLA student apartment in September while the residents were asleep. The man was described as Asian, about 5-foot-6 with short black hair and in his mid-20s. Read more...
Photo: University police released a sketch Wednesday of a man wanted for entering a UCLA student apartment in September. (UCPD)
University police are searching for a man who allegedly has scammed victims out of money while pretending to lease them apartments on Craigslist. James Webb Hunter III, 37, allegedly has a history of stealing from potential renters in the period between when one lease ends and another lease begins for an apartment, according to a UCPD alert. Read more...
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University police have reported two break-ins at student apartments in Westwood, both which occurred early Saturday morning. According to a UCPD alert, a man entered an Ophir Drive apartment through its unlocked front door about 1:40 a.m. Read more...
Former undergraduate student government officer Omar Arce pleaded no contest to seven counts of sexual battery, one count of false imprisonment and four counts of battery at a court appearance Tuesday morning. Read more...
Marie Scampini glanced across the courtyard of her Veteran Avenue apartment building into the parking lot next door, where a man acting suspiciously caught her eye. Read more...
