To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff &
           All Undergrad Students & All Grad Students <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Chief of Police Barbara O'Connor" <dpscomments@illinois.edu>

Reply-To: dps-mail@illinois.edu
 Subject: CRIME-ALERT

The Champaign Police Department is investigating a report of an armed 
robbery that occurred Thursday, April 15, 2010 at approximately 3:00 am 
in the 600 E. block of Springfield Avenue, Champaign.

The victim was walking northwest through the parking lot located 
northeast of the Sixth Street and Springfield Avenue intersection.  An 
individual approached the victim, displayed a handgun and demanded the 
victim's property.  The offender obtained the victim's property and ran 
away in a northwest direction.

The offender was described as a male, approximately twenty years of age, 
five feet and nine inches tall with a medium build, wearing a blue hooded 
sweatshirt and dark pants

The victim was not injured in the incident.

Anyone with information about these incidents should call the Champaign 
Police Department at 217-351-4545.  Information also can be shared 
anonymously through Crimestoppers by calling 217-373-TIPS or online at:  
http://www.champaigncountycrimestoppers.com/   Crimes in progress, 
reporting of suspicious individuals or any event requiring a police 
response should be reported to our regional dispatch center by calling 9-
1-1.

Crime prevention information can be found on the University of Illinois 
Division of Public Safety website at 
http://www.publicsafety.illinois.edu/universitypolice/campussafety.html

Updates to crime alerts can also be found at 
http://www.publicsafety.illinois.edu 

Information regarding our commitment to continually enhance campus safety 
can be found at http://publicsafety.illinois.edu/enhance.html 

The University of Illinois Police Department does not use race as an 
identifier in our Crime Alerts unless the descriptors are unique enough 
to aid the community in identifying the offender.  To be more specific, 
we do not use race as an identifier unless the description is 
sufficiently detailed that it would aid in the investigation and 
apprehension of the offender(s).



Barbara O'Connor, J.D.
Executive Director of Public Safety
Chief of Police
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Chief of Police

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