About a month ago, Frank Bedoya, Pomona College's senior associate dean of campus life, witnessed a bike theft. “I observed a car drive up by the bike racks over by Pomona Hall,” Bedoya said. Bedoya then saw two people with backpacks leave the cars and approach the bike racks. Suspicious, he called campus
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Pomona Monitors Bike Theft Through Expanded Camera Network
Pomona College will be the last of the five Claremont Colleges to expand security camera surveillance to bike racks. According to Vice President of Facilities and Campus Services Bob Robinson, the college began adding 61 cameras around bike racks in August. Those cameras will be functional beginning Dec. 1. Interim
Bike Theft Rises Across 5Cs, Administration Responds
When bikes are unlocked, stealing one is as easy as riding it. And though the simplest solution to this crime is often the strongest—a hefty lock—the Claremont Colleges are also turning to high-tech tactics to combat continued thefts. Since 2010, the five undergraduate colleges of the Claremont Colleges have seen
Bike Theft Rate Rises at 5Cs
The Claremont Colleges witnessed the theft of 30 bicycles last month—the most bikes stolen in any month in the past four years. Campus Safety received at least seven more reports of stolen bikes in the first week of November. According to Campus Safety records, the rate of reported bike theft
Two Suspects Arrested in Connection to Winter Break Bike Thefts
In response to the wave of bicycle thefts at the Claremont Colleges over winter break, the Claremont Police Department arrested two male suspects on Jan. 13. The case is currently under investigation. Claremont University Consortium Campus Safety officers Arman Abedini and Robert Loya played an integral part in the apprehension
Two Suspects Arrested in Connection to Winter Break Bike Thefts
In response to the wave of bicycle thefts at the Claremont Colleges over winter break, the Claremont Police Department arrested two male suspects on Jan. 13. The case is currently under investigation. Claremont University Consortium Campus Safety officers Arman Abedini and Robert Loya played an integral part in the apprehension