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Opinion: More guns, more problems

Cassidy Alexander • Jan 31, 2015
Opinion: Florida legislators are pushing a bill that would allow students to carry concealed weapons on campus. These legislators believe that having more firearms on campus will prevent school shootings.
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Police Beat: Student tased, arrested for resisting police

Patrick Lloyd • Jan 22, 2015
Two female students discovered a male student asleep in their dorm. Neither student knew the man so they called the police. The police officers roused the man and he resisted arrest. They tased the man and charged him with resisting arrest without violence to his or her person, trespassing in an unoccupied structure or conveyance and disorderly intoxication--endangering property/others.
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Plumbing leak in Building 39A causes evacuation

Nick Blank • Dec 2, 2014
Earlier today, students and faculty evacuated Bldg 39 after a fire alarm was set off by a water leakage.
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Police Beat: student conned into stealing library laptop, clothes peed on and stolen, missing magazines and more

Robert Curtis • Nov 10, 2014
UNFPD officers referred multiple students to Student Conduct for possession of drug paraphernalia while a number of items were stolen from locations around campus.
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Car accident at the intersection of Eco Road and UNF Drive

briannadillon • Nov 5, 2014
On Nov. 3, two cars were involved in a crash on the intersection of Eco Road and UNF Drive. The police reported there being no injuries despite the extensive damage done to the vehicles at the scene.
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News in brief: UNF has more Chinese culture and new UNFPD chief, human rights, haunted house

Lydia Moneir • Oct 29, 2014
This week, UNF opens Confucius Institute, welcomes new UNFPD Chief, and celebrates Halloween.
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Police Beat: UNFPD handles a breakup, a state residency and an interrupted nap

Saphara Harrell • Oct 28, 2014
Police Beat: During the night of the River City Rumble, a UNFPD officer found a student passed out drunk by the arena on Oct. 24.
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Police Beat: ex-boyfriend makes threats on girl’s life

Saphara Harrell • Oct 28, 2014
Police Beat: an embittered ex-boyfriend has been reported to have been threatening his ex-girlfriend via texts and tweets sent to the girl's roommate.
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Police Beat: threats, harassment, a hidden camera and stalking

Saphara Harrell • Oct 13, 2014
UNFPD officers encountered marijuana in the residence halls, responded to issues of verbal threats and possible stalking, cases of unwanted advances and a student reporting verbal harassment from a professor in the latest police beat compiled from the university's police reports.
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Former JSO undersheriff takes on UNFPD chief position

Cody Quattlebaum • Oct 10, 2014
Francis "Frank" Mackesy, UNF alumni and former JSO undersheriff, takes on the offer to become the new chief of the University of North Florida Police Department. If the transition runs smoothly, the university could see Mackesy as police chief as early as Oct. 27.
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IPTM awarded $4.5 million in grants to expand law enforcement training online

Jake Stofan • Oct 10, 2014
The Institute of Police Technology and Management at UNF was awarded seven grants totaling $4.5 million. As a not-for-profit organization, the IPTM plans to expand their online training courses with the funds, in hopes to provide law enforcement training for a great sum of officers.
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Police Beat: weed and wheels, wheels and rails

Sarah Ricevuto • Sep 26, 2014
A UNFPD officer made a traffic stop on Sept. 24 and discovered marijuana, while a UNF employee heard a disturbance on the roof on Sept. 25 and discovered property damage.
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