Feb. 26
6:38 a.m.: A suspicious non-affiliated male juvenile was taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol on the 1900 block of West University Boulevard near the Brownsville campus.
8:14 a.m.: A student reported that his vehicle window shattered due to a nearby UTRGV groundskeeper trimming grass in Lot E-21 on the Edinburg campus. Arrangements were made to replace the student’s window.
4:34 p.m.: A faculty member received two suspicious phone calls from an unknown person in Portable Building 1 on the Brownsville campus. The faculty member was not threatened, but wanted to document the incidents.
11:19 p.m.: A student received text messages from an unknown person at Unity Hall on the Edinburg campus. She texted them to stop contacting her, and so far, they have complied. The student was advised of the services available at UTRGV.
Feb. 27
12:58 p.m.: A student suffered a seizure at the Music, Science and Learning Center on the Brownsville campus. Brownsville Emergency Medical Services arrived and transported the student to a medical facility.
5:20 p.m.: A student injured himself after falling from his skateboard along the covered walkway on the Edinburg campus, suffering scratches on his face and left elbow. He declined emergency medical services and received treatment at Student Health Services.
Feb. 28
12:18 p.m.: A student’s UTRGV ID card with V Bucks was used without her authorization in several locations on the Edinburg campus. Another student has been identified as a suspect.
3:50 p.m.: Several rolls of toilet paper were stolen from the restrooms at the Main Building on the Brownsville campus. The dispensers had signs of being tampered.
9:27 p.m.: A non-affiliated woman reported that her daughter, a UTRGV student, had not returned home from school. The student was later located in Mercedes and reunited with
her mother.
10:39 p.m.: An officer responded to a fire alarm at the thermal plant on the Brownsville campus. The alarm was triggered by a smoke detector. The Brownsville Fire Department determined that the alarm sounded due to electrical components of a chiller burning out.
March 1
11:09 a.m.: A student reported being sexually assaulted in October 2018 by a non-affiliated man in Brownsville.
March 2
1:53 p.m.: A vehicle caused damage to the left side of a parked Weslaco Independent School District bus at the Academic Performing Arts Complex Circular Drive on the Edinburg campus, and then left the scene. There were no injuries and the only person on the bus was the driver.
March 4
11:07 a.m.: A Casa Bella staff member found marijuana in a plastic medicine bottle during a health and safety inspection in a dorm room at the Casa Bella Apartments on the Brownsville campus. The marijuana was confiscated and released to an officer.
–Compiled by Klaudia Cedillo
