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Daylight Beating 

Monday around 11 a.m., a 20-year-old UC student was walking toward campus on the 2100 block of Center Street when two teenage girls walking in the opposite direction tried to grab her backpack. When the victim resisted, the two girls were joined by two more teenage girls and the four began punching the suspect in the face and head until she was knocked to the ground where they continued to beat her.  

Two witnesses ran out from a nearby coffee shop to intervene and the four suspects ran west on Center Street without the victim’s backpack. The four girls were described as Asian, about 16 to 17 years old and wearing jeans, dark clothing and each had their hair pulled back.  

Creepy Camera Guy 

Police have received two reports on Friday of an approximately 20-year-old man who was walked behind two young women, knelt down and took pictures up their dresses.  

The first incident was reported to police just before 4:30 p.m. by three young women who were standing in line to purchase frozen yogurt on Bancroft Way when one noticed a flash.  

One of her companions told her a man had just pointed a small camera up her dress and apparently taken a picture. The women chased the suspect until losing him in a crowd on Bancroft Way.  

A half hour later at 5 p.m., three other women who were shopping at a clothes store on Bancroft Way, reported a similar incident. The suspect is described as an Asian male about 5.4 with a “buzz haircut” and wearing a navy-blue T-shirt and khaki shorts.  

Police are asking the community’s help in identifying the suspect. Anyone with any information, or any women who may have had a similar experience are asked to call the Sex Crimes Unit at (510) 981-5735. 

An Oakland Man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with allegedly stealing technology trade secrets and attempting to sell them to a competitor, announced the U.S. Department of Justice today. 

Brent Alan Woodward, 32, is accused of allegedly stealing trade  

secrets stored on computer backup tapes from his former employer, Lightwave Microsystems Inc., and trying to sell them to JDS Uniphase, which competes with Lightwave, said the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California. 

The maximum statutory penalty for each count that Woodward faces is 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. 

— Bay City News Service