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Local Information: Jan. 17, 2023
On Jan. 17, 2023, police responded to the 2400 block of Fairview Avenue for a report of an aggravated robbery. The victim, a UC student, told police that the student was getting the student's belongings out of the student's car when a subject pulled up next to the student, displayed a weapon and demanded money. The student gave the subject money and the subject fled.
The subject was driving a 2007 blue Mitsubishi Outlander.
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UC uses 'Local Information' as the title for off-campus alerts that may not legally trigger a Clery timely warning but are issued for community awareness — a common pattern at urban campuses
The 2400 block of Fairview Avenue is in the Clifton/Fairview neighborhood adjacent to UC's main campus, an area with high student rental density
The 2007 blue Mitsubishi Outlander description was the key identifier that led to Betts's arrest two days later
Five counts of aggravated robbery indicates the same suspect was tied to multiple incidents in the same week — the pattern that elevated this from isolated crime to continuing threat