A UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate faces three felony charges after allegedly damaging tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment to sabotage another student, reports say.
A university professor first reported the damage on Nov. 11 at 9:27 a.m., the University of California Police Department told SFGATE in a statement. The professor alleged that a 26-year-old student deliberately damaged university equipment and another person’s personal computer at Cory Hall. (Corey Hall houses the Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Department.)
The personal computer damage amounted to at least $2,119, but the total damage was approximately $46,855, police said. Kevin Vincent, a sergeant at the police department, told SFGATE that the student is accused of damaging the equipment over a two-year period…