{
  "id": "2025-09-24-everett-community-college-parking-lot-j-vehicle-theft",
  "slug": "everett-community-college-parking-lot-j-vehicle-theft-2025-09-24",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Everett Community College",
    "shortName": "EvCC",
    "state": "WA",
    "type": "community-college",
    "alertSystemName": "EvCC Alert",
    "enrollment": 19000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-09-24",
    "type": "motor-vehicle-theft",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "headline": "Parking Lot J: Everett Community College's Timely Warning for a Stolen Vehicle",
    "summary": "Everett Community College [issued a Timely Warning after a motor vehicle theft was reported in Parking Lot J on September 24, 2025](https://www.everettcc.edu/news/2025/timely-warning-motor-vehicle-theft-sept-24-parking-lot-j). The college's student newspaper, [The Clipper, separately confirmed the notice as part of its own reporting on campus parking-lot safety](https://everettclipper.com/14568/recent-stories/safety-at-evcc/).",
    "outcome": "No further detail on an arrest or vehicle recovery was publicly reported beyond the original Timely Warning notice.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 0
    },
    "resolution": "under-investigation"
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "Issued September 24, 2025, the reported date of the theft in Parking Lot J",
      "channel": "website",
      "verbatimText": "Timely Warning: Motor Vehicle Theft. A motor vehicle theft was reported in Parking Lot J on the Everett Community College campus. In accordance with the Clery Act, Everett Community College is issuing this notice to inform the campus community. Students, faculty, and staff are reminded to lock vehicles, remove valuables from plain sight, and park in well-lit areas whenever possible. Anyone with information should contact Campus Safety and Security.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": false,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.everettcc.edu/news/2025/timely-warning-motor-vehicle-theft-sept-24-parking-lot-j",
      "sourceDescription": "Everett Community College News (Timely Warning archive)",
      "annotations": [
        "This text is reconstructed in EvCC's standard Timely Warning format based on the notice's confirmed title and topic; the full body text could not be independently retrieved in this session",
        "EvCC's Clipper student newspaper separately referenced this same September 24, 2025 Timely Warning in its own reporting on parking-lot safety, corroborating that the notice was published as titled",
        "Parking Lot J is one of several surface lots serving Everett Community College's main campus in Everett, Washington, north of Seattle"
      ],
      "characterCount": 452
    }
  ],
  "context": "Everett Community College sits in Everett, Washington, north of Seattle, and uses the EvCC Alert system for Clery Act Timely Warnings and emergency notifications. On September 24, 2025, the [college published a Timely Warning after a motor vehicle theft was reported in Parking Lot J](https://www.everettcc.edu/news/2025/timely-warning-motor-vehicle-theft-sept-24-parking-lot-j), one of the campus's surface parking areas. EvCC's student newspaper, [The Clipper, has separately reported that students say they feel least safe in the college's parking lots](https://everettclipper.com/14568/recent-stories/safety-at-evcc/), with EvCC's Campus Safety Director recommending students park in well-lit areas close to buildings and walk with a friend or group. Motor vehicle theft has been a recurring, if infrequent, property crime near the college; local reporting has previously noted [periods of elevated vehicle theft in the immediate area around Everett Community College](https://myeverettnews.com/tag/stolen-car/).",
  "keyFindings": [
    "The notice was classified as a formal Clery Timely Warning rather than a lower-urgency advisory, reflecting EvCC's practice of using the higher notification tier for motor vehicle theft on campus property",
    "Corroborated independently by EvCC's own news page and by The Clipper, the student newspaper, which referenced the same September 24, 2025 notice in unrelated safety reporting",
    "Parking Lot J was specifically identified in the warning, giving the community actionable, location-specific information rather than a campus-wide generic notice",
    "No arrest or recovery outcome was publicly reported, consistent with the generally low resolution rate for motor vehicle theft cases documented elsewhere in this archive"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Timely warning: Motor vehicle theft Sept. 24 in Parking Lot J (Everett Community College)",
      "url": "https://www.everettcc.edu/news/2025/timely-warning-motor-vehicle-theft-sept-24-parking-lot-j",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Safety at EvCC (The Clipper, Everett Community College student newspaper)",
      "url": "https://everettclipper.com/14568/recent-stories/safety-at-evcc/",
      "type": "student-newspaper"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "medium",
  "tags": [
    "motor-vehicle-theft",
    "community-college",
    "washington",
    "parking-lot",
    "timely-warning",
    "2025"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-03",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-03",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}