A 20-year-old female student was the victim of a robbery on campus Monday after she was forced to withdraw money from a campus ATM.
The victim was walking on Lower Sproul Plaza around 2:55 p.m. Monday when she was approached by a male who asked her to buy a magazine subscription, according to a UCPD crime alert released Friday. The victim initially agreed to buy the subscription from the male, who identified himself as “Kody,” but later declined when she was told how much the subscription would cost.
According to the alert, the suspect and two accomplices subsequently threatened the victim and walked her to a nearby ATM in the Golden Bear Cafe. The victim withdrew cash, which was allegedly taken by the suspects.
The victim was not injured during the encounter and reported the incident to UCPD on Wednesday.
The suspect and his companions were last seen walking toward Sather Gate, according to the alert.
According to the UCPD crime alert, the suspect is described as:
“A white male in his early 20’s, with a thin build and short hair. There is no description of the suspect’s two companions at this time.”
Chloe Hunt covers crime. Contact her at [email protected].
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This article is poorly written. I am not trying to be rude just honest. Besides other issues, this one really bugged me, “According to the alert. According to the UCPD Crime Alert”
It is unusual that there is no description of the two “companions” seeing that this occurred in broad daylight and that the victim waited till Wednesday at 11:38 AM to report being kidnapped and robbed two days earlier. At 2:55 PM on lower Sproul, upper Sproul and then in Golden Bear, if the victim would have screamed out that she was being robbed, kidnapped etc, someone would have come to her assistance and the perps would have taken off in a flash. It is inconceivable that no one else was around at that time of the day and especially in Golden Bear.
http://police.berkeley.edu/crimealerts/2012/12-091212-60.html
Came here to say this. There is something odd about this story.
yeah people love to make up crimes — why the hell would a busy student go out of her way to lie? it’s such a small amount of cash she might have not thought it worth it to go to the police, but if they catch the guys then they won’t steal from other people. When you’re in the heat of the moment you don’t always think of all of your options, you just go with what you think will keep you safe
Possible scenario:
- Student needs money for non educational purposes
- Decides to attain money by withdrawing good amount of money from ATM machine with intention of telling her parents that the money they put into her account has been taken by some guy (Hopes they’re sympathetic and deposits more money into her account)
- If she did in fact make up the story she would not have wanted to involve the police. But after telling her parents, they would have forced her to report the crime which might explain why she waited 2 days to report it.
Not saying her story never happened, just suggesting that a wide variety of scenarios might have occurred instead. Hopefully her story is untrue and that there are not really people on campus exploiting students like this.
So where’s the racist poster who giggled how all the “perps” are black in the recent robberies. Notice the coward is silent now.
Of course, not all the urban predators are black. But stats show that a significant majority of them are…
without a doubt
And of course most urban residents are black. Just like most of Israeli criminals are Jewish, but that does not mean Jews are predisposed to crime, unless you are a bigot.
Most residents of Berkeley are not black. Blacks make up a bit under 10% of Berkeley. The fact that they make up such a large percentage of Berkeley crime is something the black community should be worried about. This isn’t about a genetic condition that makes them criminals. This is a cultural issue, and we should not ignore it, because it is the real reason blacks in the area perform so poorly compared to other groups.
You both represent ignorance. ‘Racist poster’ is most likely just a stupid racist, but you seem to ignore the basic fact that yes, most ‘perps’ in recent Berkeley robberies are indeed black.
Yeah, only 99% of the perps are black. That makes a world of difference.