UCLA confirms police report for missing jewelry in Colorado locker room, releases statement

The 28-16 win for UCLA over Colorado wasn’t the biggest story in Los Angeles on Saturday night. As it turns out, a crime took the lead following the game as reports surfaced that the Buffalo’s locker room was broken into with thieves stealing from a handful of players.

Now, the Bruins have made a statement regarding the incident that took place at the Rose Bowl this weekend. UCLA confirmed that a police report was filed regarding the matter and that they are in contact with all sides involved.

Here's a statement from the UCLA athletic department on filing a report for missing jewelry from the Colorado locker room on Saturday.

Can confirm the Pasadena Police Department is investigating the incident pic.twitter.com/iLwSESacKn

— Paolo Uggetti (@PaoloUggetti) October 30, 2023

“The UCLA athletic department confirmed that a report was filed to the Pasadena Police Department following the UCLA-Colorado football game regarding items that were reportedly missing from the Colorado locker room,” the statement read. “UCLA is in communication with law enforcement, Rose Bowl Stadium officials, and the University of Colorado on the matter.”

Jewelry, specifically several chains, and personal belongings were taken from Colorado’s locker room. A video began to circulate around that time of several players discussing their missing property before someone, presumably associated with UCLA or the venue, spoke with them about the next steps.

You don’t like to see a situation that requires police involvement to take away from a game like this one that was during primetime on ABC. Even so, it became necessary as all sides try to sort it all out and find whoever may be responsible for the theft.

Deion Sanders on what it meant to him to coach inside the Rose Bowl

Deion Sanders never stepped foot in the Rose Bowl as a player. It was quite a different experience as a coach when Colorado took on UCLA this weekend.

Sanders fell short as the Bruins took down the Buffaloes, 28-16, with a loss that dropped Colorado to 4-4. Despite the loss, it meant something to him and his staff to coach inside the legendary venue.

“You gotta understand … they always say the granddaddy of them all and to see the kind of games that have been played here and not to be able to play in it as in my whole entire career, but to come back and coach in it,” Sanders said. 

“Coach Hart, Coach Mathis and Mr. Calhoun, who runs our operations? We (were) coaching youth football several years ago. And we in the darn Rose Bowl? And you want me to question how good my God is? Have you lost your mind? Like seven years ago, us, Coach Hart was running the defense, Coach Mathis was running the defense, I was coaching the offense, Calhoun was running operations. Same thing we were doing in youth when we took seven busloads of kids to the Hall of Fame. So, we always take a picture in these types of stadiums and we just think about, wow, like, this is unbelievable.”