{"id":9665,"date":"2013-11-05T12:38:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T20:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=9665"},"modified":"2013-11-05T12:38:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T20:38:30","slug":"rcmp-release-sketch-of-suspect-in-ubc-sexual-assaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2013\/11\/rcmp-release-sketch-of-suspect-in-ubc-sexual-assaults\/","title":{"rendered":"RCMP release sketch of suspect in UBC sexual assaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/rcmp-release-sketch-of-suspect-in-ubc-sexual-assaults-1.2415564\" target=\"_blank\">CBC News<\/a>, November 5, 2013&#8211; RCMP have released a composite sketch of the suspect in a string of sexual assaults at the University of British Columbia this year.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Peter Thiessen says the suspect in question is a Caucasian male, with dark or olive skin, in his late 20s to early 30s. He is slim in build and measures between 5 foot 8 and 6 foot 2.<\/p>\n<p>Thiessen is asking anybody who has information about the suspect to contact the RCMP&#8217;s tipline at 778-290-5291 or 1-877-543-4822.<\/p>\n<p>Six sexual assaults have taken place on the UBC campus over the past several months. Police say they were likely committed by the same suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent assault,\u00a0reported Oct. 27, involved a young woman walking home from\u00a0Gage Hall on Student Union Boulevard shortly before 1:30 a.m. She noticed a shadow behind her and\u00a0was grabbed from behind. When she flailed her arms, the suspect ran off, police had said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_11_0_3_1383683596130_26\">The other five reported incidents occurred April 19, May 19, Sept. 28, Oct. 13 and Oct. 19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/rcmp-release-sketch-of-suspect-in-ubc-sexual-assaults-1.2415564\" target=\"_blank\">View sketch: CBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC News, November 5, 2013&#8211; RCMP have released a composite sketch of the suspect in a string of sexual assaults at the University of British Columbia this year. Sgt. Peter Thiessen says the suspect in question is a Caucasian male, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2013\/11\/rcmp-release-sketch-of-suspect-in-ubc-sexual-assaults\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1957,1448,2264,2420,2276],"tags":[1288937,1288964],"class_list":["post-9665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-life","category-crime","category-legal-issues","category-violence","category-working-conditions","tag-crime","tag-working-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9666,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9665\/revisions\/9666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}