The UCSD Police Department recently announced that they have lifted their campus lockdown status, following a 48-hour manhunt to try and track down Antonio Costa, the grad student that escaped his enclosure earlier this week. Costa, who was thought to be locked in his bedroom working on his thesis paper was instead found in the basement of APM, furiously grading undergrad homework assignments in complete darkness.
UCSDPD received an anonymous call around midnight that someone with “grungy dreadlocks pulled back in a bun” was running through the wooded area by Student Health Services. When officers arrived at the scene, all they found were muddy footprints and guitar picks, the signature tracks of a grad student. The resulting manhunt – spanning the next two days – ended when Costa was discovered in the basement of APM and escorted to Scripps Hospital where he is undergoing treatment for depression, stress, and fluid thermodynamics disorder.
UCSDPD encourages students to report any suspicious persons, particularly those 26 years or older wearing unbuttoned flannel over a t-shirt, and to not, under any circumstances, approach them and ask if they have any plans for work after school.