{
  "id": "2024-09-12-university-of-new-hampshire-electric-scooter-thefts",
  "slug": "university-of-new-hampshire-electric-scooter-thefts-2024-09-12",
  "institution": {
    "name": "University of New Hampshire",
    "shortName": "UNH",
    "state": "NH",
    "type": "public-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "UNH Alerts / Wildcat Safety Bulletin",
    "enrollment": 14000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2024-09-12",
    "type": "theft",
    "cleryCategory": "timely-warning",
    "resolution": "under-investigation",
    "headline": "Three electric scooters taken from Mills, Hamilton Smith, and Stoke racks",
    "headlinePublic": "Three electric scooters taken from Mills, Hamilton Smith, and Stoke racks",
    "summary": "UNH Police [issued a timely warning for three electric-scooter thefts](https://www.unh.edu/upd/sites/default/files/media/2024-09/sept-2024-scooter-thefts-clery.pdf) from bike racks at Mills Hall, Hamilton Smith, and Stoke Hall between September 7 and 11, 2024.",
    "outcome": "Two scooters were locked and one was not. No suspects named in the notice."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "                                                                            University Police Department\n                                                                            18 Waterworks Road\n                                                                            Durham, NH 03824-3515\n                                                                            V: 603.862.1427\n                                                                            F: 603.862.1966\n                                                                            TTY: 7.1.1 (Relay NH)\n                                                                            www.unh.edu/upd\n\n\n\n\nSeptember 12, 2024\n\nUNH Police are issuing a timely warning for the report of 3 motor vehicle thefts of electric\nscooters.\n\nThe UNH Police Department received two reports of stolen electric scooters on 9/10/24\nand a third report on 9/11/24. The electric scooters were taken between the dates of\n9/7/24 and 9/11/24. Two of the scooters were locked and one was not. They were taken\nfrom the bike racks at Mills Hall, Hamilton Smith and Stoke Hall. The scooters taken\ninclude a black Hiboy scooter, a black NIUKQi3 Pro and a grey NIUKQi2 Pro.\nIf you have any information on these crimes please contact the UNH Police at 603-862-\n1427 or report anonymously on the UNH Safety App RAVE Guardian located here.\n\nIf you haven’t done so yet, register your scooter with UNH Transportation here.\n\nRemember to always secure your scooter.\n\n\n\n\n            “A CALEA & IACLEA Accredited Law Enforcement Agency”\n",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.unh.edu/upd/sites/default/files/media/2024-09/sept-2024-scooter-thefts-clery.pdf",
      "sourceDescription": "UNH UPD timely warning PDF (September 12, 2024 scooter thefts)",
      "annotations": [
        "Dual independent PDF fetch 2026-08-24 (112559-byte match, sha256 fb690dfd8cdf73f97cc156c490acfdd1dacc658d6e5e3474a0f2b4fa032bab4d). pdftotext -layout; form-feed stripped; letterhead and CALEA footer kept to match the April 2025 sibling file.",
        "Distinct incident from 2025-04-14-university-of-new-hampshire-electric-scooter-thefts: different theft window and halls (Mills/Hamilton Smith/Stoke in September 2024 vs Paul School/Sawyer/Williamson in April 2025)."
      ],
      "characterCount": 1570,
      "timestampApprox": "UNH UPD letter dated September 12, 2024"
    }
  ],
  "context": "UNH Police post downloadable Timely Warning PDFs from [unh.edu/upd](https://www.unh.edu/upd/). This September 12, 2024 product is a separate scooter-theft window from the April 2025 warning already on disk.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Three scooters taken from Mills Hall, Hamilton Smith, and Stoke Hall bike racks.",
    "Two were locked and one was not."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "UNH UPD timely warning PDF (September 12, 2024 scooter thefts)",
      "url": "https://www.unh.edu/upd/sites/default/files/media/2024-09/sept-2024-scooter-thefts-clery.pdf",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-08-24",
      "archiveUrl": null,
      "archiveNotes": "SPN 523 at capture 2026-08-24; archive.org save endpoint returned HTTP 523"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "theft",
    "scooter",
    "timely-warning",
    "new-hampshire",
    "2024"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-08-24",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-24",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}