{
  "id": "2024-04-18-cornell-university-boldt-hall-burglary",
  "slug": "cornell-university-boldt-hall-burglary-2024-04-18",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Cornell University",
    "shortName": "Cornell",
    "state": "NY",
    "type": "private-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "CornellALERT",
    "enrollment": 26000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2024-04-18",
    "type": "burglary",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "headline": "Headphones stolen from a residence hall room; second burglary alert in 48 hours",
    "headlinePublic": "Headphones stolen from a residence hall room; second burglary alert in 48 hours",
    "summary": "On the evening of April 18, 2024, a pair of [Apple AirPods Max headphones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPods_Max) was stolen from a secured dorm room in [Boldt Hall](https://www.cupolice.cornell.edu/crime-alerts/2024/) on Cornell's West Campus. [Cornell University Police](https://publicsafety.cornell.edu/crime-alerts/) issued a [Clery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clery_Act) crime alert the next morning, one of two burglary alerts in 48 hours during a documented spring 2024 dorm-burglary wave.",
    "outcome": "Stolen items not recovered. No suspect description available. Investigation ongoing.",
    "resolution": "under-investigation"
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2024-04-19T10:00:00-04:00",
      "timestampApprox": "Morning of April 19, 2024",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "On Friday, April 19, 2024, the Cornell University Police responded to Boldt Hall, 727 University Avenue, City of Ithaca, for a burglary. The victim reported that their Apple Air Pod Max headphones were stolen from their secured dorm room between 6:52 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 18, 2024. The victim was not in the room at the time of the incident.\n\nThere is no suspect description available currently. The investigation is continuing. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Cornell University Public Safety Communications Center at (607) 255-1111.\n\nThe Cornell University Police urge the community to protect their property by closing and locking unattended doors and windows and immediately report any suspected criminal activity they see by dialing 911 or utilizing the RAVE Guardian app.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://publicsafety.cornell.edu/crime-alerts/burglary-boldt-hall/",
      "sourceDescription": "Cornell University Police Crime Alert — Burglary Boldt Hall",
      "annotations": [
        "Corrected to exact publicsafety.cornell.edu crime-alerts body (Air Pod Max spelling as published)."
      ],
      "characterCount": 811
    }
  ],
  "context": "[Cornell University Police](https://www.cupolice.cornell.edu/crime-alerts/2024/) issues Clery [timely warnings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clery_Act) under the title 'CRIME ALERT - Public Notification' with a notably consistent template: a one-line response statement, a factual narrative paragraph, and a Clery compliance attribution. Cornell's archive is one of the most accessible in the country, every alert is publicly indexed by year at cupolice.cornell.edu/crime-alerts/. This April 2024 [Boldt Hall](https://www.fingerlakes1.com/2024/04/20/cornell-hit-by-dorm-room-burglaries-police-issue-crime-alerts/) burglary was the second alert in two days following [an April 17 burglary at Ganedago Hall](https://www.14850.com/041936302-cornell-burglaries-2404/), and the cluster prompted student journalism examining the role of unlocked doors in Cornell's spring 2024 crime statistics. The case demonstrates that Clery [timely warnings](https://www.clerycenter.org/the-clery-act) are not reserved for violent crime: a property burglary in a residential building meets the 'serious or continuing threat' standard when there is reason to believe an unidentified intruder may strike again. Cornell's transparent archiving practice is a reference point for institutional Clery compliance.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Cornell Police's CRIME ALERT template is one of the most standardized and transparent in higher ed",
    "Burglary qualifies for Clery timely warning when continuing-threat criteria are met, not just violent crime",
    "Cornell publicly archives every crime alert at year-indexed URLs, enabling longitudinal analysis",
    "Specific time-window reporting (e.g., '6:52-11:00 PM EDT') reflects forensic precision uncommon in campus alerts",
    "April 2024 dorm-burglary cluster (Ganedago + Boldt) drove campus discussion of unlocked-door culture"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Cornell University Police Crime Alerts from 2024",
      "url": "https://www.cupolice.cornell.edu/crime-alerts/2024/",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Cornell hit by dorm room burglaries, police issue crime alerts (FingerLakes1.com)",
      "url": "https://www.fingerlakes1.com/2024/04/20/cornell-hit-by-dorm-room-burglaries-police-issue-crime-alerts/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Burglaries reported from campus dorm rooms, says CUPD (14850 Magazine)",
      "url": "https://www.14850.com/041936302-cornell-burglaries-2404/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Cornell Division of Public Safety Crime Alerts",
      "url": "https://publicsafety.cornell.edu/crime-alerts/",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Cornell University Police Crime Alert — Burglary Boldt Hall",
      "url": "https://publicsafety.cornell.edu/crime-alerts/burglary-boldt-hall/",
      "type": "official-archive"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "burglary",
    "timely-warning",
    "private-r1",
    "ivy-league",
    "residential",
    "property-crime",
    "ithaca",
    "clery-compliance"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-03",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-20",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}