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Verified verbatimSonoma State University official Timely Warning Crime Bulletin page — verbatim text confirmed from the official sonoma.edu archive including opening attribution to Chief Nader Oweis and full Clery clause1109 chars
Nader Oweis, Chief of Police, provides the campus community with a Timely Warning Bulletin regarding an incident of stalking that occurred on campus on April 18, 2024, at approximately 2:45 p.m.
This Timely Warning Bulletin is being issued in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Act, and the purpose is to provide preventative information to the campus community to aid members from becoming the victim of a similar crime.
On April 18, 2024, at approximately 2:45 p.m., officers were dispatched to the area of the soccer field regarding a male subject who was following women and making them feel uncomfortable. Upon arrival, officers located the subject, and based on victim and witness statements subsequently arrested the subject for stalking. He was booked into the Sonoma County Jail.
The subject, who is not affiliated with the campus, is a Hispanic male, 37 years old, with short dark hair, approximately 5'10" tall, and weighing 180 pounds.
The Sonoma State University Police Department is seeking community assistance in determining if there are any additional victims or witnesses to this incident.
The bulletin is authored by Chief of Police Nader Oweis and published on the official SSU campus updates page — the formal opening attributing the bulletin to the chief by name is standard SSU timely-warning format.
The Clery clause wording is the full formal version: 'the purpose is to provide preventative information to the campus community to aid members from becoming the victim of a similar crime' — more specific than the common abbreviated form.
Notably, the warning was issued after the suspect was already arrested — Sonoma State used the bulletin to surface additional victims and witnesses rather than to warn of a still-at-large threat.