Suspect in UCLA campus sexual assault case pleads not guilty – Daily News

Jeffery Stott Brewer Jr., 41, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday, July 10, 2024, to charges related to the alleged sexual assault of a transfer student on July 5 at the Saxon Residential Suites on the UCLA campus in Westwood. (Google Street View)

A 41-year-old man has been accused of breaking into a UCLA dormitory where two exchange students were living and sexually assaulting one of them.

According to prosecutors, Jeffery Stott Brewer Jr. pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to one count each of sexual penetration by force and first-degree burglary of a habitation in the presence of a person. He was also accused of committing the sexual assault during the burglary.

Authorities believe Brewer entered the room at Saxon Residential Suites in the 300 block of De Neve Drive, an apartment-style student housing complex in the northwest part of UCLA known as “The Hill,” around 2:40 a.m. last Friday. He allegedly sexually assaulted the victim while she was in bed, according to a statement from the UCLA Police Department.

According to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office, he was reportedly loitering outside the same dormitory a little over an hour earlier before entering one of the residence halls. He allegedly knocked on one of the apartment doors, entered when a student opened the door, and then left when two students asked him to leave, according to the district attorney’s office.

Brewer was arrested by UCLA police at 9:44 p.m. Friday and remains in custody for failure to post $1.15 million bail, according to jail records.