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

On July 28, 2010 at 1:25 am, the Champaign and University of Illinois 
Police Departments responded to an aggravated robbery that occurred near 
the intersection of Fifth Street and Stoughton Street, Champaign.

The victim was on the southwest corner of Stoughton and Fifth when she 
observed a person across the street from her location.  The person 
appeared to be intoxicated as he stumbled across the street towards her.  
The victim advised the person continued to walk towards her where he 
eventually grabbed her by the throat and yanked her purse from her body.  
The offender then ran east away from the victim and was not located.  

A witness to the crime observed a white or light colored four door 
compact to midsize car parked near the location where the aggravated 
robbery occurred.  The witness thought the car may have been involved in 
the incident because as the offender ran east from the location of the 
aggravated robbery, the car accelerated at a rapid rate, as if to meet up 
with the offender on Sixth Street.  The vehicle, and the person(s) who 
may have been in the vehicle, have not been located.    

The offender was described as a medium toned black male, early twenties, 
5 foot 10 inches tall, 180 lbs with a short (buzz cut) hair style.  The 
offender was wearing a white baggy T-shirt, black or dark navy blue 
basketball style shorts and possibly dark shoes.  The face of the 
offender was described as very round.

Fortunately, the victim and witness were 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 immediately 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 

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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