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.

Dec 8, 2025 · A UC Berkeley professor says a hidden camera he tucked inside Cory Hall captured a PhD candidate allegedly wrecking a fellow student’s computer, setting off sparks and a criminal case …

Dec 11, 2025 · UC Berkeley professor’s sabotage suspicions resulted in another PhD student being arrested last month, and is due in court next week.

6 days ago · On Nov. 12, UCPD officers arrested a UC BerkeleyPh.D. candidate on three counts of felony vandalism after a campus professor installed a surveillance device that allegedly recorded the …

6 days ago · The professor wondered if the student’s luck was really that bad, or if something else was afoot. So he installed a hidden camera — disguised in a department laptop, and pointed it at the …

Dec 9, 2025 · Zou was arrested on Nov. 12 at UC Berkeley’s Cory Hall and declined to talk to police, according to court records.

Dec 11, 2025 · A UC Berkeley professor, suspecting years of targeted computer damage against one Ph.D. student, secretly installed a hidden camera that allegedly caught another doctoral candidate …