{
  "id": "2024-10-10-uc-santa-barbara-storage-lot-workshop-burglaries",
  "slug": "uc-santa-barbara-storage-lot-workshop-burglaries-2024-10-10",
  "institution": {
    "name": "UC Santa Barbara",
    "shortName": "UCSB",
    "state": "CA",
    "type": "public-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "UCSB Police Timely Warning",
    "enrollment": 26000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2024-10-10",
    "endDate": "2024-10-11",
    "type": "burglary",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "headline": "Two Overnight Burglaries and a String of Vehicle Break-ins Hit UCSB Housing Storage Areas in One Weekend",
    "summary": "Overnight between [Thursday, October 10 and Friday, October 11, 2024](https://dailynexus.com/2024-10-11/overnight-burglaries-reported-near-storke-family-housing-and-santa-ynez-apartments/), UC Santa Barbara police investigated two separate burglaries: one at an overflow storage lot near Storke Family Housing, where home improvement fixtures were taken from multiple units, and a second at a workshop near the Santa Ynez Apartments, where tools were stolen. [Several UCSB utility vehicles parked near the workshop were also broken into](https://www.police.ucsb.edu/alerts/timely-warning-burglary), with items taken from inside.",
    "resolution": "under-investigation",
    "outcome": "No suspect description was available in either burglary. UCSB Police Department continued to investigate both incidents and the related vehicle break-ins; the university encouraged residents to secure storage units and lock vehicles parked in the area.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "Friday, October 11, 2024, after UCSB Police discovered the overnight burglaries and vehicle break-ins",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "TIMELY WARNING - BURGLARY. The UCSB Police Department received two reports of burglary that occurred overnight on Thursday, October 10, and Friday, October 11, 2024. The first burglary occurred at the overflow storage lot at the intersection of Mesa and Los Carneros Roads, near the Storke Family Housing Apartments; several home improvement fixtures were taken from multiple storage units. The second burglary occurred at a workshop at the north end of the Santa Ynez Apartments, where tools and other items were taken. Several UCSB utility vehicles parked near the workshop were also broken into, and items were taken from inside. There is no suspect information at this time. This Timely Warning is issued in compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act. Anyone with information is asked to contact UCPD at 805-893-3446.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": false,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.police.ucsb.edu/alerts/timely-warning-burglary",
      "sourceDescription": "Reconstructed in close paraphrase from the UCSB Police Department's Timely Warning page and the Daily Nexus's October 11, 2024 report",
      "annotations": [
        "The Daily Nexus, UCSB's student newspaper, and the UCSB Police Department's own Timely Warning page independently described the same two-location pattern: a storage lot near Storke Family Housing and a workshop near the Santa Ynez Apartments",
        "Both Storke Family Housing and the Santa Ynez Apartments are UCSB-affiliated student and graduate-student housing complexes on Isla Vista's edge, distinct from the university's traditional residence halls",
        "The additional vehicle break-ins targeting UCSB utility vehicles parked near the workshop suggest an opportunistic overnight spree rather than a single targeted theft"
      ],
      "characterCount": 880
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Timely Warning - Burglary",
      "url": "https://www.police.ucsb.edu/alerts/timely-warning-burglary",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Overnight burglaries reported near Storke Family Housing and Santa Ynez Apartments",
      "url": "https://dailynexus.com/2024-10-11/overnight-burglaries-reported-near-storke-family-housing-and-santa-ynez-apartments/",
      "type": "student-newspaper"
    }
  ],
  "context": "[UC Santa Barbara](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Santa_Barbara) houses a large share of its students in family and graduate housing complexes on the edge of Isla Vista, including Storke Family Housing and the Santa Ynez Apartments. Overnight between [Thursday, October 10 and Friday, October 11, 2024](https://dailynexus.com/2024-10-11/overnight-burglaries-reported-near-storke-family-housing-and-santa-ynez-apartments/), UCSB police responded to two separate burglary reports: an overflow storage lot near Storke Family Housing where home improvement fixtures were taken from multiple units, and a workshop near the Santa Ynez Apartments where tools were stolen. The [UCSB Police Department's Timely Warning page](https://www.police.ucsb.edu/alerts/timely-warning-burglary) noted that several UCSB utility vehicles parked near the workshop were also broken into during the same overnight window, with items taken from inside. No suspect description was available for either burglary at the time the warning was issued. The case is a common form of Clery-reportable property crime on a large public campus: low-severity, high-volume theft from communal or utility spaces rather than occupied living quarters, but still meeting the timely-warning threshold because of the unresolved, potentially continuing risk to the surrounding housing community.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Two separate burglaries, an overflow storage lot near Storke Family Housing and a workshop near the Santa Ynez Apartments, occurred in the same overnight window between October 10 and 11, 2024",
    "Home improvement fixtures were stolen from the storage lot and tools were stolen from the workshop",
    "Several UCSB utility vehicles parked near the workshop were also broken into during the same period, suggesting a single opportunistic spree rather than two unrelated incidents",
    "No suspect description was available in the official Timely Warning, illustrating how low-severity property-crime alerts often close without an identified suspect",
    "Storke Family Housing and the Santa Ynez Apartments are UCSB-operated housing complexes on the edge of Isla Vista, distinct from the university's traditional dormitories"
  ],
  "confidence": "medium",
  "tags": [
    "burglary",
    "storage-unit",
    "vehicle-burglary",
    "family-housing",
    "california",
    "public-r1",
    "2020s",
    "unsolved",
    "isla-vista"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-03",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-03",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}