Newspaper theft investigation is suspended
Bethany Brendon
Issue date: 6/2/09 Section: News
The investigation into the theft of the Apr. 21 issue of the Highlander Newspaper has been suspended pending further information, Lt. John Freese of UCPD said. ASUCR President Roxanna Sanchez was questioned along with four other women about the Apr. 21 early-morning theft, according to a police report.
Sanchez gave different accounts to a senate audience and to police, telling police that she was bowling that night, and telling an audience at an emergency senate meeting first that she was visiting family in Orange County and then saying that she was in Riverside with her friend and ASUCR intern Maria Belen Farinas. Sanchez ignored repeated requests for an interview made over the course of several weeks.
After the final ASUCR meeting last Thursday, she wrote the following statement: "I look forward to hearing any news from UCPD in regards to this issue."
According to the police report, Sanchez, Farinas, and three other women from the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority were questioned between April 30 and May 4. The five of them generally denied knowing that the newspapers were stolen, aside from rumors.
On Monday, Apr. 20, at 7 p.m., the report said that they had their weekly Kappa Kappa Gamma meeting at the house where Farinas, Sanchez, and one of the other women reside. Sanchez and Farinas were not present at the house, but met up with the rest of the women afterwards, according to the report. At 10:56 p.m., the five of them went to Brunswick Bowl in Moreno Valley, which was confirmed by the bowling alley's surveillance video.
The five of them left around midnight. Two of them said they then left the house, while another said she went straight to bed.
On Facebook.com, at 2:04 a.m. the morning of the theft, one of the women who claimed to have left the house right after they returned from bowling wrote on Sanchez's wall, "Bowling = fun. After bowling activity = even better haha [heart] you." The post has since been deleted.
Sanchez gave different accounts to a senate audience and to police, telling police that she was bowling that night, and telling an audience at an emergency senate meeting first that she was visiting family in Orange County and then saying that she was in Riverside with her friend and ASUCR intern Maria Belen Farinas. Sanchez ignored repeated requests for an interview made over the course of several weeks.
After the final ASUCR meeting last Thursday, she wrote the following statement: "I look forward to hearing any news from UCPD in regards to this issue."
According to the police report, Sanchez, Farinas, and three other women from the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority were questioned between April 30 and May 4. The five of them generally denied knowing that the newspapers were stolen, aside from rumors.
On Monday, Apr. 20, at 7 p.m., the report said that they had their weekly Kappa Kappa Gamma meeting at the house where Farinas, Sanchez, and one of the other women reside. Sanchez and Farinas were not present at the house, but met up with the rest of the women afterwards, according to the report. At 10:56 p.m., the five of them went to Brunswick Bowl in Moreno Valley, which was confirmed by the bowling alley's surveillance video.
The five of them left around midnight. Two of them said they then left the house, while another said she went straight to bed.
On Facebook.com, at 2:04 a.m. the morning of the theft, one of the women who claimed to have left the house right after they returned from bowling wrote on Sanchez's wall, "Bowling = fun. After bowling activity = even better haha [heart] you." The post has since been deleted.
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dismayed
posted 6/02/09 @ 10:47 PM PST
wow what a failure on everyone's part. doesn't the commons have security cameras?
asucr senate fail
ucpd fail
vcsa fail
we all know it's roxanna and her kkg friend(s), we just needed proof that the only person with a really good motive actually did it
Ryan
posted 6/03/09 @ 9:33 AM PST
I am so disappointed with our president, so disappointed.
Concerned Student
Concerned Student
posted 6/03/09 @ 10:52 AM PST
We all know Roxy did it, just like we all know O.J killed his wife. The system failed once again and now we just have to live with it.
Daniel
posted 6/04/09 @ 4:49 PM PST
Seriously... Who cares? It was a lame little joke and I doubt that anyone is hurting over not being able to get a newspaper when they are by the commons. (Continued…)
Seriously...
posted 6/04/09 @ 5:49 PM PST
I can't believe that the Highlander is still concerned with their insanely childish and stupid pissing match with Roxanna. While the UCPD is looking at surveillance tapes from the bowling alley and the HUB, we had two sexual assaults on this campus. (Continued…)
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