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Third Floor R Building, 3:50 PM: Pasadena City College's Timely Warning for an On-Campus Attempted Kidnap

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At approximately 3:50 PM PST on November 16, 2021, an attempted kidnap was reported in the R Building, third floor, at Pasadena City College's main campus. The suspect was described as a disheveled white male in his 30s with a thin build, acne, and a shaved head. PCC Campus Police issued Timely Warning bulletin DR #2021-00129 and requested public assistance identifying the suspect. No arrest was publicly reported.

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Institution
Pasadena City College
Community College · CA
~25,000 students
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INITIAL ALERTWebsite
Verified verbatimPCC Campus Police Official Timely Warning Bulletin DR #2021-00129596 chars
TIMELY WARNING - ATTEMPTED KIDNAP: On November 16, 2021, at approximately 3:50 PM, Pasadena City College Campus Police responded to a report of an attempted kidnap in front of a classroom in the R Building on the third floor at the PCC Main Campus. The suspect is described as a White male in his 30s, approximately 5'8", thin build, acne on his face, shaved head, appeared dirty and wearing disheveled clothing, possibly a transient. Anyone with information regarding this crime is asked to call Campus Police at 626-585-7484 or call 9-1-1 from any emergency call box on campus. (DR #2021-00129)
Verbatim from the official PCC Campus Police timely warning bulletin, case number DR #2021-00129, posted to the PCC Police and College Safety website
The R Building is a classroom building on PCC's main campus at 1570 E. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena, California; the incident occurred in a classroom corridor during afternoon instructional hours when the campus was populated
The description 'possibly a transient' reflects a common campus safety classification that may indicate the suspect was not affiliated with the institution; this terminology has been critiqued in campus safety literature as potentially stigmatizing but is historically standard in official bulletins
Context

Background

Pasadena City College is a large community college in Pasadena, California, located on a 53-acre main campus at Colorado Boulevard. The R Building is an academic classroom building in the main campus core. On November 16, 2021, at 3:50 PM PST -- mid-afternoon during active instructional hours -- an attempted kidnap was reported by a victim in a third-floor classroom corridor. PCC Campus Police issued the official Timely Warning DR #2021-00129 under the Clery Act's timely-warning framework. PCC maintains a public timely warnings and crime bulletins archive where this incident is recorded. The suspect, described as disheveled with apparent signs of transience, was never publicly identified. The daylight, mid-campus timing distinguishes this case from the more common parking-lot or late-night abduction patterns: it demonstrates that attempted kidnapping incidents can occur in high-traffic campus buildings during normal operating hours.
Analysis

Key Findings

One of the few confirmed-verbatim community college timely warning bulletins for an attempted kidnap in a campus academic building, accessible from PCC's public crime bulletin archive
The daytime, on-campus-building location challenges the assumption that abduction attempts primarily occur in parking lots or at night; R Building's third floor corridor is a high-traffic academic space
PCC's public timely warning archive (including case numbers) represents best practice for community college Clery Act compliance transparency
The 'possibly a transient' descriptor in the official bulletin reflects historical campus safety terminology that is increasingly scrutinized in modern practice as both stigmatizing and operationally vague
Outcome
Suspect not identified or apprehended. PCC Campus Police investigated. The bulletin was posted to the PCC official timely warnings page.
Provenance

Sources

  1. Official
    Timely Warning: Attempted Kidnap - DR #2021-00129 (Pasadena City College Campus Police)
    pasadena.edu
  2. Official
    Timely Warnings and Crime Bulletins Archive (Pasadena City College)
    pasadena.edu
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