Teenage boy robbed at UC Berkeley, Nike sweatshirts taken
The victim jumped into a police cruiser seeking help, according to emergency dispatches reviewed by The Scanner.
Two young men took five Nike sweatshirts from a teenage boy during a strong-arm robbery at UC Berkeley on Tuesday afternoon.
The robbery took place at about 12:25 p.m. at the Grinnell Pathway pedestrian bridge on campus, not far from Oxford and Center streets in downtown Berkeley.
The victim, who was not a UC Berkeley student, jumped into a BPD cruiser seeking help right after the robbery, according to police and emergency dispatches reviewed by The Scanner.
The boy said the people who robbed him appeared to be 18 years old and about 5 feet 8 inches tall with thin builds.
One, who was Hispanic, wore a red hoodie, black pants and white Air Force 1 sneakers, while the other, who was described as Black, wore a black puff jacket and black pants.
The pair ran off campus and across Shattuck Avenue after the robbery, according to emergency dispatches.
Berkeley police searched the area, including the BART station, for anyone matching the description of the robbers but did not find them.
BPD also determined that the the robbery had taken place on UC Berkeley property and turned over the case to UCPD.
There have been at least 28 other robberies in the city of Berkeley this year compared to 33 over the same period last year.
That's an 18% drop.
But Berkeley robbery reports appear to be trending up: There had been at least 18 robberies in February as of Feb. 21 compared to 10 in all of January, according to preliminary BPD data.
Historically, Berkeley averaged about one robbery a day, although those numbers fell during the pandemic.
In the past six months, there have been no other robberies reported on UC Berkeley property, according to CrimeMapping.com, an official repository for Cal police data.
