{
  "id": "2021-11-16-pasadena-city-college-attempted-kidnap",
  "slug": "pasadena-city-college-attempted-kidnap-2021-11-16",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Pasadena City College",
    "shortName": "PCC",
    "state": "CA",
    "type": "community-college",
    "enrollment": 25000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2021-11-16",
    "type": "missing-person",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "headline": "Timely warning after an attempted kidnapping reported inside a campus building",
    "headlinePublic": "Timely warning after an attempted kidnapping reported inside a campus building",
    "summary": "At approximately 3:50 PM PST on November 16, 2021, an attempted kidnap was reported in the R Building, third floor, at [Pasadena City College's](https://pasadena.edu/) main campus. The suspect was described as a disheveled white male in his 30s with a thin build, acne, and a shaved head. [PCC Campus Police issued Timely Warning bulletin DR #2021-00129](https://pasadena.edu/police-and-college-safety/crime-bulletins/timely-warning-2021-00129.php) and requested public assistance identifying the suspect. No arrest was publicly reported.",
    "outcome": "Suspect not identified or apprehended. PCC Campus Police investigated. The bulletin was posted to the PCC official timely warnings page.",
    "resolution": "under-investigation"
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2021-11-16T15:50:00-08:00",
      "channel": "website",
      "verbatimText": "TIMELY WARNING - ATTEMPTED KIDNAP: On November 16, 2021, at approximately 3:50 PM, Pasadena City College Campus Police responded to a report of an attempted kidnap in front of a classroom in the R Building on the third floor at the PCC Main Campus. The suspect is described as a White male in his 30s, approximately 5'8\", thin build, acne on his face, shaved head, appeared dirty and wearing disheveled clothing, possibly a transient. Anyone with information regarding this crime is asked to call Campus Police at 626-585-7484 or call 9-1-1 from any emergency call box on campus. (DR #2021-00129)",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://pasadena.edu/police-and-college-safety/crime-bulletins/timely-warning-2021-00129.php",
      "sourceDescription": "PCC Campus Police Official Timely Warning Bulletin DR #2021-00129",
      "annotations": [
        "Verbatim from the official PCC Campus Police timely warning bulletin, case number DR #2021-00129, posted to the PCC Police and College Safety website",
        "The R Building is a classroom building on PCC's main campus at 1570 E. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena, California; the incident occurred in a classroom corridor during afternoon instructional hours when the campus was populated",
        "The description 'possibly a transient' reflects a common campus safety classification that may indicate the suspect was not affiliated with the institution; this terminology has been critiqued in campus safety literature as potentially stigmatizing but is historically standard in official bulletins"
      ],
      "characterCount": 596
    }
  ],
  "context": "[Pasadena City College](https://pasadena.edu/) is a large community college in Pasadena, California, located on a 53-acre main campus at Colorado Boulevard. The R Building is an academic classroom building in the main campus core. On November 16, 2021, at 3:50 PM PST -- mid-afternoon during active instructional hours -- an attempted kidnap was reported by a victim in a third-floor classroom corridor. [PCC Campus Police issued the official Timely Warning DR #2021-00129](https://pasadena.edu/police-and-college-safety/crime-bulletins/timely-warning-2021-00129.php) under the Clery Act's timely-warning framework. [PCC maintains a public timely warnings and crime bulletins archive](https://pasadena.edu/police-and-college-safety/crime-bulletins/index.php) where this incident is recorded. The suspect, described as disheveled with apparent signs of transience, was never publicly identified. The daylight, mid-campus timing distinguishes this case from the more common parking-lot or late-night abduction patterns: it demonstrates that attempted kidnapping incidents can occur in high-traffic campus buildings during normal operating hours.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "One of the few confirmed-verbatim community college timely warning bulletins for an attempted kidnap in a campus academic building, accessible from PCC's public crime bulletin archive",
    "The daytime, on-campus-building location challenges the assumption that abduction attempts primarily occur in parking lots or at night; R Building's third floor corridor is a high-traffic academic space",
    "PCC's public timely warning archive (including case numbers) represents best practice for community college Clery Act compliance transparency",
    "The 'possibly a transient' descriptor in the official bulletin reflects historical campus safety terminology that is increasingly scrutinized in modern practice as both stigmatizing and operationally vague"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Timely Warning: Attempted Kidnap - DR #2021-00129 (Pasadena City College Campus Police)",
      "url": "https://pasadena.edu/police-and-college-safety/crime-bulletins/timely-warning-2021-00129.php",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Timely Warnings and Crime Bulletins Archive (Pasadena City College)",
      "url": "https://pasadena.edu/police-and-college-safety/crime-bulletins/index.php",
      "type": "official-archive"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "attempted-abduction",
    "timely-warning",
    "community-college",
    "california",
    "daytime-incident",
    "academic-building",
    "verbatim-confirmed",
    "public-safety-archive"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-31",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-16",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}