Cal Poly Pomona’s main campus mailroom in the Classroom, Laboratory and Administration (CLA) Building has been broken into twice in the last six months.
CLA Building 98 is one of the most recognized buildings on campus. It is composed of the CLA tower and the classrooms and administration offices.
The CLA tower has been closed since January, but the administration offices and classrooms are still in use today.
Students, faculty and staff were notified via email immediately by the University Police Department about the campus burglaries.
A crime bulletin with details about the incidents was posted on the CPP website. The email provided close-up photos and video footage of the suspects breaking, entering and stealing packages.
The first incident occurred at 2:34 a.m. May 11. Two unidentified suspects were caught on camera breaking into the main campus mailroom and took with them a Surface Pro computer, mail that was addressed to faculty, staff and students and office supplies that belong to school.
The second incident occurred at 4:24 a.m. July 31. Campus PD believe that the two suspects from the May incident are the same suspects in the second incident.
The suspects broke into the mailroom once more, taking multiple campus items and a laptop computer.
In the video, the suspects were seen fleeing in a silver Hyundai Elantra GT (model year 2013-2017).
“Yes, I can tell you our security has been upgraded,” said Karen Martin, distribution services manager. “We installed new cameras and have changed our alarm system to a more advanced system.”
(Courtesy Of CPP Police Department Press Release)
The mailroom is located on the lower level of the CLA closer to Parking Structure 2.
Distribution services controls the main mailroom where the official university mail and U.S. postal mail is sent out and received.
“I can tell you that the campus shouldn’t be concerned for their safety or continuing crimes from the suspects,” University Police Lt. Marc Simpson said.
Campus PD and distribution services did not want to make any further comments pending the current investigation.
Simpson hopes to have an update on the investigation this coming week.
The Bronco Copy ‘N Mail was not able to be reached for a comment.
CPP’s police department is reaching out to the campus community for any tips in identifying these two suspects.
If you choose to remain anonymous, you can leave a message with the police or call the anonymous tip line at (909) 869-3399.
Follow the link provided for videos, photos and the crime bulletin posted by the PD: https://www.cpp.edu/~police/persons-of-interest.shtml.
For any further questions or if you have any information about the suspects, please contact the CPP PD at (909) 387-3070 or email police@cpp.edu.