News archive - 2015

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Sexual Assault Arrest

In the early hours of Sunday morning campus police received a call from Waterloo Regional Police requesting we check the area of University Avenue and Westmount Avenue for a male exposing himself to passers-by. Campus police immediately went to the location and found the male, later determined to be a UW student. After a short foot chase he was arrested.

Two females then spoke to the officers and reported the male had grabbed them.

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

BB Gun Shooter Arrested

Media Release from Waterloo Regional Police

20 year old male arrested for BB incidents in Waterloo’s University district

Waterloo Region, Ontario – Officers of the Waterloo Regional Police General Investigations Branch have arrested and charged a 20 year old male in connection with the BB/Pellet gun incidents in early September 2015.

Friday, September 11, 2015

BB Gun Shooter

On Monday September 7, 2015, a Wilfrid Laurier University student was walking northbound on King Street near Hickory Street, Waterloo when she was struck in the eye by a bb pellet. Her injuries are serious. Another similar incident occurred shortly after but no one was injured.

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Person of interest for thefts

On April 29/15 the following person was seen in the area where a wallet was stolen at St Paul’s College. He is also the person of interest in a number of other thefts on the main campus. This person is not a member of our university community and has been trespassed from the property. Anyone seeing this person on campus is asked to contact UW Police at 519-888-4567 extension 22222.

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Monday, April 6, 2015

Assault / Robbery

Over the past weekend there were two separate incidents on campus where a student was assaulted and had property taken. On April 3rd at 11:15 pm, a student was confronted near Village 1 by three black males with a handgun who stole some of his property. On April 4th at 9:50 pm another student was assaulted by three or four black males near Beck Hall at UWP. Some of his property was also taken. It is possible that a Mazda 5 was involved.