{
  "id": "2025-01-19-columbia-university-burglary-burglary-195claremontave-2025-01-19",
  "slug": "columbia-university-burglary-burglary-195claremontave-2025-01-19-2025-01-19",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Columbia University",
    "shortName": "Columbia",
    "state": "NY",
    "type": "private-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "Columbia Public Safety Clery Alerts",
    "enrollment": 33000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-01-19",
    "type": "burglary",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "resolution": "under-investigation",
    "headline": "Clery alert: burglary at 195 Claremont Avenue",
    "headlinePublic": "Clery alert: burglary at 195 Claremont Avenue",
    "summary": "Columbia University Public Safety [issued a Clery crime alert PDF](https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W03_Clery_Burglary_195ClaremontAve_2025-01-19.pdf) (archived [via Wayback](https://web.archive.org/web/20250804133624/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W03_Clery_Burglary_195ClaremontAve_2025-01-19.pdf)) regarding this incident. Full text is preserved from the official alert flyer.",
    "outcome": "See the Clery crime alert for investigation status and safety guidance.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "Published as Columbia Clery crime alert around 2025-01-19",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "Clery Crime Alert\n\nBurglary\n\nOn Sunday, January 19, 2025, at around 4:35 p.m. a Burglary occurred at 195 Claremont Avenue, at the Morningside Campus.\n\nA video review shows an individual piggybacking behind a tenant to gain entry to the building. Once inside the individual removed several packages\nwithout permission or authority to do so.\n\nThe incident was reported to Columbia University Public Safety on Sunday, January 19, 2025, at around 4:46 p.m. If you have any additional information\nabout this incident, please contact the Department of Public Safety at 212-854-2797.\n\nThis same individual committed similar crimes on Dec 18th, 2024, and January 12, 2025, at 195 Claremont Avenue.\n\nThe suspect is described as male presenting, with a medium complexion, medium build, with a beard and mustache and wearing a blue and grey knitted\nhat, blue winter coat, grey hoodie, grey sweat pants, red, black and white sneakers and carrying a red and black backpack. There is no other information\navailable at this time.\n\nSafety Tips\n\n- Do not buzz people into a building unless you know who they are and what that are doing.\n\n- Do not allow others to “piggyback” behind you into a secure location.\n\n- Please try to retrieve your packages in a timely manner.\n\nDISCLAIMER: Clery Crime Alerts (Timely Warning Notifications) are distributed pursuant to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime\nStatistics Act. Columbia University is required to alert the campus community when certain crimes occur in our Clery Act defined campuses that represent a serious or continuous\nthreat to the community.\n\nTo see this and other Clery Crime Alerts please visit our Public Safety website. For more information about Columbia University’s Clery Act compliance efforts, please contact the\nDepartment’s Clery Act Compliance Director, Roberto A. Pineda Sanchez at rp3240@columbia.edu",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250804133624/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W03_Clery_Burglary_195ClaremontAve_2025-01-19.pdf",
      "sourceDescription": "Columbia Public Safety Clery crime alert PDF via Wayback Machine",
      "annotations": [
        "Full text extracted with pdftotext from official Clery alert PDF archived on Wayback",
        "Live publicsafety.columbia.edu currently returns Cloudflare 403 to automated fetch; Wayback holds the public PDF"
      ],
      "characterCount": 1889
    }
  ],
  "context": "On or about 2025-01-19, [Columbia University](https://www.columbia.edu/) Department of Public Safety published a Clery crime alert flyer. The live [Clery crime alerts index](https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/content/clery-crime-alerts) is currently access-restricted to automated clients (Cloudflare 403); this case uses a [Wayback-archived PDF](https://web.archive.org/web/20250804133624/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W03_Clery_Burglary_195ClaremontAve_2025-01-19.pdf) of the same public notice series.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Official Clery crime alert PDF with complete transmitted text",
    "Recovered via Wayback Machine because the live Public Safety host blocks automated access"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Clery crime alert PDF (Wayback)",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20250804133624/https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/W03_Clery_Burglary_195ClaremontAve_2025-01-19.pdf",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Columbia Public Safety Clery crime alerts index",
      "url": "https://publicsafety.columbia.edu/content/clery-crime-alerts",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Columbia University",
      "url": "https://www.columbia.edu/",
      "type": "official"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "burglary",
    "clery",
    "timely-warning",
    "columbia",
    "new-york",
    "wayback"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-21",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-21",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}