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)
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...
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...
Three rare instruments were reported stolen from a display case in the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology over winter break. The instruments, a Saraswati vina from South India, a kora from West Africa and a prima balalaika from Russia, were reported stolen Dec. Read more...
Photo: A prima balalaika from Russia was among three instruments reported missing from the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology during winter break. (UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology)
Friends and family of a UCLA alumnus are raising money to cover his medical expenses after a man stabbed him on the walk home to his L.A. Read more...
Photo: John DeMartini, who was attacked on the walk to his L.A. apartment on Dec. 24, takes a picture in his hospital room in the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. (Courtesy of Linda DeMartini)
A former UCLA undergraduate student government officer was released from county jail Tuesday morning after serving 77 days for sexual battery and other charges. Omar Arce, who was the Undergraduate Students Association Council Community Service commissioner last year, watched in an orange jumpsuit from a holding cell as Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Alan Rubin granted his release. Read more...
Two men robbed a UCLA student at gunpoint early Thursday on Strathmore Drive, taking a cell phone and money before driving away, university police said. About 2:37 a.m. Read more...
