Yale Police Issue Warning After Multiple Student Home Intrusions

NEW HAVEN, CT — Yale police are warning students about intrusions after multiple students awoke in recent months to find a stranger in their residence, the department said in a letter to the community in August.

The most recent burglary occurred just before 5:30 a.m. July 23 on Edgewood Avenue between Park Street and Lynwood Place, where a student awoke to find a stranger in their bedroom, police said in the letter.

The intruder fled following an altercation with the student and did not take anything from the residence, according to police. No one was injured.

The incident follows two other recent intrusions in the Yale community.

According to Yale police, there was another burglary at a Mansfield Street residence overnight June 20, when a graduate student at the residence awoke to find a man inside their apartment.

In early May, a graduate student living off campus on Elm Street woke up to find an unknown man in their residence and was sexually assaulted at gunpoint before the man fled, The Hartford Courant reported.

The university saw a total of 16 burglaries in 2021, 31 burglaries in 2020, and 39 burglaries in 2019, according to a Yale police crime report filed in 2022.

In the letter, Yale's chief of police Anthony Campbell offered the following precautions to help deter criminal activity.

• Always lock your doors and windows.
• Keep hedges near doors and windows trimmed.
• Make sure your entrance is well-lit.
• Use a locking device that allows the window to open a few inches for ventilation.
• Secure window air conditioners where possible.