This post was updated July 27, 2025 at 8:51 p.m. to provide retroactive anonymity to a suspect whose charges were later dismissed. Police are searching for a man who was seen peeping into a Roebling Avenue student apartment Friday evening. Read more...
Photo: Two peepings were reported at Roebling Avenue student apartments on Friday and Monday. A 38-year-old man was arrested Monday morning in connection with the second peeping.
A UCLA microbiologist allegedly posted a death threat on Facebook Wednesday in response to an article about Harvard University’s relationship with Thailand, according to a tweet from a former Reuters journalist. Read more...
Photo: In a comment on Facebook, Peera Hemarajata, a postdoctoral fellow in clinical microbiology at UCLA, allegedly threatened the life of an opinion columnist.
An anti-Semitic flier with swastikas was found under the door of a business run by Jewish individuals in Westwood on Tuesday. Boruch Cunin, a rabbi at the Chabad House at UCLA, said the business owner and an employee later came to him to discuss the flier. Read more...
An iPad and iPhone were stolen from a UCLA student’s room in the Theta Chi fraternity house on Gayley Avenue early Sunday morning, police said. University police said an unknown suspect entered the room and took the devices between 2 a.m. Read more...
A 47-year-old man was ordered to serve 180 days in jail for peeping into several Westwood apartments in recent months. Christopher Mendicino pleaded no contest Tuesday to two charges of peeping and one charge of loitering, said Frank Mateljan, spokesman for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office, in an email statement. Read more...
Photo: Christopher Mendicino, 47, was sentenced Tuesday for peeping into several UCLA student apartments. (UCPD)
Police arrested a man wanted for peeping and prowling several times around UCLA student apartments in Westwood. University police officers arrested the man Friday morning after he asked an acquaintance to store his belongings and buy him an Amtrak ticket to Santa Barbara under a false name. Read more...
Photo: Christopher Mendicino, 47, was arrested by university police Friday morning for allegedly peeping into several UCLA student apartments. (UCPD)
University police have reported a series of burglaries in UCLA student apartments in the North Village since Sunday. The burglaries took place on Kelton Avenue at 2:40 a.m. Read more...
