{"id":284762,"date":"2025-11-11T06:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/284762\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T06:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:22:09","slug":"california-man-accused-of-breaking-into-uc-berkeley-sorority-and-watching-students-shower-stealing-underwear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/284762\/","title":{"rendered":"California man accused of breaking into UC Berkeley sorority and watching students shower, stealing underwear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A twisted man with a laundry list of prior convictions allegedly snuck into a sorority at the University of California, Berkeley, watched young women living in the house shower and even stole their underwear, according to cops. <\/p>\n<p>Courtney Alford, 45, was arrested by officers with the Berkeley Police Department last Wednesday, four days after a gaggle of sorority sisters reported seeing a strange man snooping around UC Berkeley\u2019s Alpha Chi Omega house. <\/p>\n<p>Courtney Alford, 45, was arrested after he allegedly broke into a sorority house <br \/>at the University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley Police Department<\/p>\n<p>The students told police that they caught the pervert picking through a coed\u2019s room before fleeing the residence around 6 a.m., while others reported seeing a middle-aged man sneaking around as early as 3 a.m., the department wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/berkeleyca.gov\/community-recreation\/news\/suspect-arrested-after-entering-south-campus-sorority?fbclid=IwY2xjawN_hDpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFUem10QVlweEZmS2dWc1BGc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHhsagJ9qw4L8eCb3Q43Mff5D1nP1mT8K3h-hOii6IBlxni6xuu_77cLAtWnX_aem_RS_6PiyMkcv-vwTovo_a3Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When officers parsed through the house\u2019s security footage, they found multiple clips of a man believed to be Alford walking inside and outside of the building until around 6:35 a.m. At one point, he also appeared to leave and return in an entirely new ensemble with a ski mask covering his face.<\/p>\n<p>Students living at UC Berkeley\u2019s Alpha Chi Omega sorority house reported seeing a man prowling through their home.<\/p>\n<p>The disturbing ordeal took place during the wee hours of the morning when many students were returning from a night out celebrating Halloween on the university\u2019s Greek Row, which is lined with fraternity and sorority houses.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, police discovered that the creep had made off with pairs of the students\u2019 underwear and a few slices of pizza.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Byron White, with the Berkeley Police Department, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-11-10\/alleged-underwear-thief-breaks-into-sorority-watches-women-shower-police-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> that one student woke up while Alford was prowling near her bed and another alleged seeing him spying on her while she was showering.<\/p>\n<p>The university\u2019s Greek Row was full of parties on Halloween that bled into the early hours of Nov. 1. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is someone that is known to the Berkeley Police Department well enough that an officer recognized him from one of the [surveillance photos],\u201d White told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators cuffed Alford at his home in Castro Valley, Calif., without incident on Nov. 5. Cops recovered a cache of weapons inside the home, including parts of an assault rifle, high-capacity ammunition magazines and more than 900 rounds of ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>Police found parts for an assault rifle at Alford\u2019s home. Berkeley Police Department<\/p>\n<p>The Peeping Tom was previously found guilty of burglary, grand theft, assault with a deadly weapon, making criminal threats, evading a peace officer, and a slew of other charges all within Alameda County alone.<\/p>\n<p>Alford is facing a separate arraignment for another arrest, including a charge for a lewd act upon a child on Nov. 18 \u2014 just 30 minutes before facing a pretrial hearing for his alleged break-in at the UC Berkeley sorority house, according to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acgov.org\/sheriff_app\/inmateSearch.do;jsessionid=kfBzCsy7A-WOHhdfhEnTig__.ac01pap951:Inter-Crims02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">custody information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Alameda County District Attorney\u2019s Office remanded him with 15 charges, including burglary, peeking, invading privacy, possession of a firearm by a felon, and unlawful entry on top of multiple criminal enhancements to account for his long list of priors.<\/p>\n<p>Alford is currently being held at the Santa Rita Jail on a $275,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A twisted man with a laundry list of prior convictions allegedly snuck into a sorority at the University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8713,4,450,2356,22523,451,3,150352,150353,150354,452,453,17345,194],"class_list":["post-284762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-berkeley","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-california","tag-halloween","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-peeping-tom","tag-perverts","tag-sororities","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-university-of-california","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}