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UPD recruits new Safety Rangers

Sam Chaney | Feb 8, 2018

In trying to survive the UNF Hunger Games known as parking, students have to search for a space, dodge citations and try to avoid colliding with each other both physically and emotionally. Now, however,...

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Graphic by Rachelle Keller

Police Beat: Stolen skateboard and a creepy car

Sam Chaney | Jan 25, 2018

So Long, Longboard A UNF student contacted officials on Jan. 16 to report a stolen skateboard that was valued at $100. According to the police report, the student entered the Osprey Commons Cafeteria...

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Funding for new body-cameras for UNF police

Sam Chaney | Jan 16, 2018

The University of North Florida Police Department (UNFPD) recently announced that it was provided with a federal grant through the Department of Justice in order to supply them with new body-worn cameras. The...

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Police Beat: JTA Confrontation and Stolen Decal

Sam Chaney | Jan 12, 2018

This Is Your Stop University of North Florida Police Department (UNFPD) arrested Joseph Alexander Menter for battery on Jan. 8 when a dispute on a Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) bus was...

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Police Beat: Threatening emails and a forceable arrest

Alexandra Torres-Perez | Dec 19, 2017

Give Me Some Bitcoins A UNF student called UNFPD in regards to an email he received on Dec. 11 threatening that if he did not pay a certain amount of Bitcoins he was going to be executed. According...

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Police Beat: Stolen Wallet and Cell Phone

Police Beat: Stolen Wallet and Cell Phone

Samantha Chaney | Dec 8, 2017

  Wallet Lifted While Lifting A student met with officials at UNFPD on Dec. 3 to report a stolen wallet. According to the police report, the student had been exercising at the UNF fitness...

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Police Beat: Fake sugar daddy, gunshots and vandalism

Alexandra Torres-Perez | Nov 24, 2017

Can I be your sugar daddy? On Nov. 13, UNFPD met with a student at the Crossings. The student told police he was on the web site Jack'd looking for a friend. Jack’d is a dating app similar to Tinder...

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Student assaulted over a skateboard sale

Alexandra Torres-Perez | Nov 20, 2017

Students received an Osprey Update about a student who was assaulted in the parking lot of Osprey Cove at 12:20 p.m. today. According to the update, the student got in the car with three unknown white...

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Police Beat: 700 emails, the answer is no, and damage at the Lib

Alexandra Torres-Perez | Nov 15, 2017

Along with a home invasion and a man indecently exposing his penis, here are some other crimes that happened on campus last week. "I wrote you 700 letters. I wrote you every day for a year." A female...

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UPDATE: Crimes on campus

Alexandra Torres-Perez | Nov 15, 2017

There have been three gun incidents in dorms involving students this semester alone and a slew of other incidents on campus. Cameron James Daniel pleaded not guilty of all charges in writing. He is...

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UNFPD investigating a robbery and false imprisonment at the Landing

Ronnie Rodgers | Nov 8, 2017

According to an Osprey Campus Update, a student was hit in the head with a gun, tied up, and robbed in his dorm in Building X of The Landing by two suspects. The victim said at around 7:45 p.m. he heard...

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Police Beat: scary voicemails and a box of weed

Police Beat: scary voicemails and a box of weed

Alexandra Torres-Perez | Nov 1, 2017

Scary Voicemails Like something out of a horror movie; a UNF employee contacted UNFPD after receiving some unsettling voicemails. The employee received two voicemails from an unknown caller early...

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