Campus Safety arrests bike theft suspect

The suspect possessed knives, burglary tools and a bike believed to be stolen from off-campus.

Christian Leonard, Editor-in-Chief • November 9, 2018

Two officers arrest a man on a campus safety vehicle

Campus Safety officers and Chief John Ojeisekhoba arrest a man in front of Chase Gym for trespassing. The man is suspected of bike theft, according to Ojeisekhoba.

Photo courtesy of Courtesy of Campus Safety

Updated: 4:30 p.m., Nov. 9.

Campus Safety officers arrested a man suspected of bike theft in front of Chase Gym this Friday, Nov. 9, at about 12 p.m.

The man had been spotted some bike racks on campus last week. Officers made contact with the man and banned him from campus. He returned this week, and after a student reported him to Campus Safety, officers arrived and arrested him for trespassing. He had knives and burglary tools, as well as a bicycle which Campus Safety believes was stolen off-campus, according to Campus Safety Chief John Ojeisekhoba. Officers then delivered the man into the custody of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.

Ojeisekhoba says that the suspect has a prior criminal record, and that officers have made contact with at least six bike theft suspects in the past week.

“We’ve been very active with them,” Ojeisekhoba said.

Campus Safety has loaned out 40 U-locks to students in upper campus, where bike thieves have multiple options for entering Biola, and plans to distribute more. At least 15 bicycles owned by members of the Biola community have been reported stolen this semester.

For more information about the bike thefts on campus, see the Chimes’ coverage of the story here.

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Christian Leonard is a junior journalism major whose affinity for chickens is really getting out of hand. He can often be found singing in the office, wrapped around a book, or arguing for the classification of cereal as a soup. [email protected] I came to Biola a nervous freshman, not really sure what I wanted to do during my time at university. Years of prayer and waiting seemed fruitless, until an academic counselor recommended I contact the Chimes, since I had shown a modest interest in journalism. I figured it was worth a shot, so I got in touch with the news editors. After a brief chat, I left, figuring I would write for them the following semester. I was assigned my first story a few days later. The following semester, I became a news apprentice, stepping into a full editorship my sophomore year. Through the experience, I gained a greater appreciation for the bustling community that is Biola—its students, its administration, and its culture—and a deeper desire to serve it through storytelling. As my time as news editor drew to a close, I was encouraged to apply for the editor-in-chief position, a prospect which both intimidated and thrilled me. Yet I ultimately saw it as a way to better support the publication through which God showed me His desire for my life. Now, as I oversee the Chimes, I am committed to upholding myself and the newspaper to standard of excellence, and to helping train the next generation of student journalists.

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