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Senior arrested for stalking Mayer females
Diexia Wang allegedly broke into students' dorm rooms, stole dozens of bras and panties
Julie Cohn
Penn senior Diexia Wang was arrested at Mayer Hall last week after he allegedly stalked female residents of the dorm and stole their property, including their undergarments.
A search of Wang's belongings yielded the discovery of high-end purses, one Burberry jacket and between 30 to 35 bras and pairs of women's underwear, all allegedly stolen, Philadelphia Police Lt. John Walker said.
Wang, 21, was arrested when a female Penn student and Mayer Hall resident returned to her room and heard noises within her apartment. She noticed a shadow in her hallway and called out to see if someone was there, Walker said.
Wang - who also lives in Mayer Hall - told the student he was waiting for her roommate, Walker said. The student found his story suspicious and called police.
The student said that she believes she left her door unlocked last Wednesday, but that Wang had knocked on her door the previous day with a key to her room, Walker said.
She had decided not to answer but changed her mind when she heard a key in her lock. She opened the door to find Wang, who said he had found the key and had come to return it.
Because Mayer's keys are not embossed with room numbers, it is unclear how Wang could have linked an unidentified key to a specific room.
The student did not call police after the first incident.
Police said they are unsure how Wang obtained the key or if he made duplicates.
This student, however, was not the only alleged victim: His tactics and excuses were familiar to other Mayer female students, who shared similar stories.
College freshman Catherine Hsu and her roommates left their Mayer apartment door unlocked one evening during fall break. When they returned that night, they found the door locked.
Hsu and her roommates assumed they must have accidentally locked the door but then heard knocking from inside the room.
A man whom Hsu now recognizes as Wang then opened their door, asking if one of them was named Stephanie, Hsu said.
A search of Wang's belongings yielded the discovery of high-end purses, one Burberry jacket and between 30 to 35 bras and pairs of women's underwear, all allegedly stolen, Philadelphia Police Lt. John Walker said.
Wang, 21, was arrested when a female Penn student and Mayer Hall resident returned to her room and heard noises within her apartment. She noticed a shadow in her hallway and called out to see if someone was there, Walker said.
Wang - who also lives in Mayer Hall - told the student he was waiting for her roommate, Walker said. The student found his story suspicious and called police.
The student said that she believes she left her door unlocked last Wednesday, but that Wang had knocked on her door the previous day with a key to her room, Walker said.
She had decided not to answer but changed her mind when she heard a key in her lock. She opened the door to find Wang, who said he had found the key and had come to return it.
Because Mayer's keys are not embossed with room numbers, it is unclear how Wang could have linked an unidentified key to a specific room.
The student did not call police after the first incident.
Police said they are unsure how Wang obtained the key or if he made duplicates.
This student, however, was not the only alleged victim: His tactics and excuses were familiar to other Mayer female students, who shared similar stories.
College freshman Catherine Hsu and her roommates left their Mayer apartment door unlocked one evening during fall break. When they returned that night, they found the door locked.
Hsu and her roommates assumed they must have accidentally locked the door but then heard knocking from inside the room.
A man whom Hsu now recognizes as Wang then opened their door, asking if one of them was named Stephanie, Hsu said.
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Patty Martin
posted 11/28/07 @ 5:13 AM EST
This was an ingenious metaphor for the plight of us students: for don't we all turn the compulsory indignities of life at Penn into lunatic fetishes? When President Gutman says, "We're making history!" is that not autoerotic? When Maureen Rush says, "Your children are safe" is that less fantasy than a transvestite parading around in stolen underwear?
These are the Emperor's new trappings: stolen laptops, creepy stalkers, and school shootings. (Continued…)
John
posted 11/28/07 @ 5:29 AM EST
Is it too much to ask for to go for ONE day without PR disasters headlining the Daily Pennsylvanian?
2nd that
posted 11/28/07 @ 9:43 AM EST
Seriously! What is happening to Penn? This is embarrassing.
pm
posted 11/28/07 @ 11:43 AM EST
why did it take dp so long to publish this? i read this story 2 days ago on different sources...
Goose
posted 11/28/07 @ 12:22 PM EST
Still looks like we were one-upped by Princeton on this one:
http://modelminority.com/printout1008.html
So...
posted 11/28/07 @ 1:54 PM EST
Who thinks this guy also frequented Wizzards?
Alum
posted 11/28/07 @ 3:24 PM EST
This guy was actually in the DP last year, under better circumstances...
http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2007/02/23/News/Whartonite. (Continued…)
Informed
posted 11/28/07 @ 3:24 PM EST
Well, at least the kid doesn't have to worry about paying off his bail.
http://www.thestreet.com/newsanalysis/opinion/10353218.html
http://www.yalicoo. (Continued…)
are you kidding me?!
posted 11/28/07 @ 4:05 PM EST
"Police did not know if Wang had returned to the dorm."
WHAT?! HE SHOULD NOT be allowed into ANY dorms. yes, i understand innocent until proven guilty, but he was CAUGHT in the act of stealing panties and police found all the stolen items on him/in his possession. (Continued…)
The Puritan
posted 11/28/07 @ 7:51 PM EST
This sexual predator creep should be expelled immediately. I am glad that my daughter does not attend Upenn. Criminal background checks should be required of all admitted students to weed out perverts. (Continued…)
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