Motor Vehicle Theft Timely Warning: In compliance with the Timely Warning provisions of the federal Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, the University Public Safety Department is providing notice of an uptick in motor vehicle thefts and vehicle burglaries occurring in and around the GCU campus. The reported offenses involved motor vehicle thefts and vehicle burglaries at the Grove Parking Garage (Building 80) and the 29th Ave Parking Garage (Building 55), received during Spring Break. In many of the reports, vehicles were not locked, valuables were left unsecured inside, and spare keys were stored inside parked vehicles. The suspect description includes a female subject in dark clothing in her early twenties and male subject(s) also in their early twenties. Always lock your vehicle, remove valuables, and never leave a spare key inside.
This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.
GCU's Spring Break for the 2021-2022 academic year ran March 14-20, 2022, per the university's published academic calendar, so the alert's reference to 'received during Spring Break' places the thefts within that week even though the notice itself was not published until April 6, 2022
The suspect description names both a female subject in dark clothing and male subjects, all in their early twenties, unusually specific detail for a Clery Timely Warning covering multiple separate incidents
The explicit detail that some victims left spare keys inside their vehicles is a recurring theme in campus motor vehicle theft warnings archived elsewhere in this collection, including at Loyola University Chicago and the University at Buffalo
This is a paraphrase built from indexed excerpts of GCU's Emergency Site; the literal wording could not be independently confirmed because the source page could not be fully retrieved in this session