{ "id": "2024-10-10-uc-santa-barbara-storage-lot-workshop-burglaries", "slug": "uc-santa-barbara-storage-lot-workshop-burglaries-2024-10-10", "institution": { "name": "UC Santa Barbara", "shortName": "UCSB", "state": "CA", "type": "public-r1", "alertSystemName": "UCSB Police Timely Warning", "enrollment": 26000 }, "incident": { "date": "2024-10-10", "endDate": "2024-10-11", "type": "burglary", "cleryCategory": "timely-warning", "headline": "Burglary, October 10, 2024", "summary": "Overnight between [Thursday, October 10 and Friday, October 11, 2024](https://dailynexus.com/2024-10-11/overnight-burglaries-reported-near-storke-family-housing-and-santa-ynez-apartments/), UC Santa Barbara police investigated two separate burglaries: one at an overflow storage lot near Storke Family Housing, where home improvement fixtures were taken from multiple units, and a second at a workshop near the Santa Ynez Apartments, where tools were stolen. [Several UCSB utility vehicles parked near the workshop were also broken into](https://www.police.ucsb.edu/alerts/timely-warning-burglary), with items taken from inside.", "resolution": "under-investigation", "outcome": "No suspect description was available in either burglary. UCSB Police Department continued to investigate both incidents and the related vehicle break-ins; the university encouraged residents to secure storage units and lock vehicles parked in the area.", "casualties": { "killed": 0, "injured": 0 } }, "alerts": [ { "sequence": 1, "type": "initial", "timestampApprox": "Friday, October 11, 2024, 12:39 (page timestamp on UCSB PD Timely Warning)", "channel": "email", "verbatimText": "This email is being sent to the campus community as a Timely Warning regarding crimes that occurred on campus property. The following is provided for your personal safety.\n\nThe UCSB Police Department received two reports of burglary that occurred during the night/early morning on Thursday, October 10, 2024, and Friday, October 11, 2024.\n\nThe first burglary took place at the overflow storage lot located at the intersection of Mesa and Los Carneros Roads, near the Storke Family Housing Apartments. Several home improvement fixtures were taken from multiple storage units. The second burglary occurred at a workshop located at the north end of the Santa Ynez Apartments. Tools and other items were taken from the workshop.\n\nIn addition to these reports of Burglary, several UCSB utility vehicles that were parked near the workshop were broken into, with items taken from the vehicles.\n\nThere is no suspect information at this time.\n\nUCPD is investigating these crimes. If you have information that might assist in the investigation, please contact the UCSB Police Department at (805) 893-3446, or report crime information anonymously at www.police.ucsb.edu/report-crime.\n\nUCPD reminds the campus community of the following:\n\nSafety Tips\n\n\tImmediately report inoperable locks and latches to the appropriate maintenance personnel.\nEnsure that all doors, windows, and desks are closed and locked. Do not prop open doors or allow unauthorized persons into secured/locked buildings.\nNever leave purses, wallets, electronics, or other valuables in plain view or unattended.\nImmediately report all suspicious persons, vehicles and activities to the UCSB Police Department at (805) 893-3446.\nUCPD encourages the community to use safety services, such as the emergency phones identified by a blue light. When walking to and from campus and Isla Vista locations, you can request a CSO escort by calling (805) 893-2000 or by calling on the emergency phones located throughout the UCSB Campus.\n\nUCPD shares these Safety Tips while recognizing that perpetrators, and not the victims or survivors, are solely responsible for their actions.\n\nResources\n\n\tCounseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) provides individual counseling, group counseling, and wellness opportunities to students. Call (805) 893-4411 or submit a CAPS Services Request Form. 24/7 phone counseling is available by calling (805) 893-4411. CAPS website: caps.sa.ucsb.edu.\nThe Academic & Staff Assistance Program (ASAP) offers short-term counseling, consultation, wellness workshops, and assistance with threat management to faculty and staff. Call (805) 893-3318 to schedule an appointment. ASAP website: www.hr.ucsb.edu/hr-units/employee-services/asap\nThe UCSB Police Department's CSO Safety Escort Program is a free service provided to members of the UCSB community as a safe alternative to walking alone at night. Call (805)893-2000 to request a CSO escort. For more information: https://www.police.ucsb.edu/cso/cso-safety-escorts.\n\n**UCPD encourages printing and posting this Timely Warning for further community notification.**", "isVerbatimConfirmed": true, "sourceUrl": "https://www.police.ucsb.edu/alerts/timely-warning-burglary", "sourceDescription": "UCSB Police Timely Warning - Burglary (Oct 11, 2024)", "annotations": [ "Official UCSB PD Timely Warning email recovered in full from police.ucsb.edu (page date Friday, October 11, 2024 - 12:39).", "The Daily Nexus, UCSB's student newspaper, and the UCSB Police Department's own Timely Warning page independently described the same two-location pattern: a storage lot near Storke Family Housing and a workshop near the Santa Ynez Apartments", "Both Storke Family Housing and the Santa Ynez Apartments are UCSB-affiliated student and graduate-student housing complexes on Isla Vista's edge, distinct from the university's traditional residence halls", "The additional vehicle break-ins targeting UCSB utility vehicles parked near the workshop suggest an opportunistic overnight spree rather than a single targeted theft" ], "characterCount": 3091 } ], "sources": [ { "title": "Timely Warning - Burglary", "url": "https://www.police.ucsb.edu/alerts/timely-warning-burglary", "type": "official-archive" }, { "title": "Overnight burglaries reported near Storke Family Housing and Santa Ynez Apartments", "url": "https://dailynexus.com/2024-10-11/overnight-burglaries-reported-near-storke-family-housing-and-santa-ynez-apartments/", "type": "student-newspaper" } ], "context": "[UC Santa Barbara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Santa_Barbara) houses a large share of its students in family and graduate housing complexes on the edge of Isla Vista, including Storke Family Housing and the Santa Ynez Apartments. Overnight between [Thursday, October 10 and Friday, October 11, 2024](https://dailynexus.com/2024-10-11/overnight-burglaries-reported-near-storke-family-housing-and-santa-ynez-apartments/), UCSB police responded to two separate burglary reports: an overflow storage lot near Storke Family Housing where home improvement fixtures were taken from multiple units, and a workshop near the Santa Ynez Apartments where tools were stolen. The [UCSB Police Department's Timely Warning page](https://www.police.ucsb.edu/alerts/timely-warning-burglary) noted that several UCSB utility vehicles parked near the workshop were also broken into during the same overnight window, with items taken from inside. No suspect description was available for either burglary at the time the warning was issued. The case is a common form of Clery-reportable property crime on a large public campus: low-severity, high-volume theft from communal or utility spaces rather than occupied living quarters, but still meeting the timely-warning threshold because of the unresolved, potentially continuing risk to the surrounding housing community.", "keyFindings": [ "Two separate burglaries, an overflow storage lot near Storke Family Housing and a workshop near the Santa Ynez Apartments, occurred in the same overnight window between October 10 and 11, 2024", "Home improvement fixtures were stolen from the storage lot and tools were stolen from the workshop", "Several UCSB utility vehicles parked near the workshop were also broken into during the same period, suggesting a single opportunistic spree rather than two unrelated incidents", "No suspect description was available in the official Timely Warning, illustrating how low-severity property-crime alerts often close without an identified suspect", "Storke Family Housing and the Santa Ynez Apartments are UCSB-operated housing complexes on the edge of Isla Vista, distinct from the university's traditional dormitories" ], "confidence": "high", "tags": [ "burglary", "storage-unit", "vehicle-burglary", "family-housing", "california", "public-r1", "2020s", "unsolved", "isla-vista" ], "dateAdded": "2026-07-03", "lastUpdated": "2026-07-17", "addedBy": "ingestion" }