A UCLA frat house was burglarized by thieves who swiped laptops, computers and other property as the students slept, according to the campus police department.
A pair of suspects — a man and a woman — slipped into the home in the 500 block of Landfair Avenue on Friday morning around 8 a.m. to commit the burglary, according to the UCLA Police Department. All of the burglary victims were UCLA students. No injuries were reported, according to the department.The burglary came five days after a UCLA staff member was robbed at gunpoint by two men — one in a ski mask — on a street off campus, UCLA police said. The suspects fled in a Chevrolet Camaro.A UCLA crime data report detailing 2021 statistics showed burglaries trending upward, compared to 2019 and 2020, with 66 on-campus burglaries in 2021 compared to 47 in 2019.
Off-campus properties, however, saw a decline in burglaries with 27 in 2021 compared to 43 the year before.