A 43-year-old career criminal who spent 14 years in California state prison was living in a freshman dorm at Cal Poly Humboldt when police arrested him on suspicion of sexually assaulting someone in the residence hall, then arrested him again the same day after he walked right back onto campus in defiance of a court order.
This is what “second chances,” “Rising Scholars,” and California’s prison-to-campus pipeline look like when Democrat politicians and university administrators put ideology ahead of 18-year-old students.
Delos Anthony Charles Moore, 43, was booked August 31 on suspicion of sexual battery and false imprisonment after a reported assault inside the Hinarr Hu Moulik residence hall, according to the Cal Poly Humboldt University Police Department and reporting by the Lost Coast Outpost.
He posted $35,000 bail. Then he returned to the dorm. Police arrested him again for violating an emergency protective order that barred him from the building. He made bail a second time the same day.
The fall semester had started only a week earlier. This was Moore’s first semester at Humboldt. He had just transferred from Lake Tahoe Community College and was living on campus while studying forestry.
The university’s response should terrify every parent writing a tuition check in Gavin Newsom’s California.
After families demanded answers, Cal Poly Humboldt issued a statement that reads like a parody of left-wing higher education:
“We understand that members of the campus community, particularly students and their families, are concerned following Monday’s arrest and we know that people have questions about student housing.
A person’s age or prior incarceration does not automatically disqualify an otherwise eligible student from university housing.
Education changes lives, and we believe students should have the opportunity to participate fully in the college experience, including living in campus housing. We are equally committed to student safety, maintaining clear standards of conduct, and addressing misconduct.
We understand that members of the campus community, particularly students and their families, are concerned following Monday’s arrest and we know that people have questions about student housing.
A person’s age or prior incarceration does not automatically disqualify an otherwise eligible student from university housing.
Education changes lives, and we believe students should have the opportunity to participate fully in the college experience, including living in campus housing. We are equally committed to student safety, maintaining clear standards of conduct, and addressing misconduct.”
Moore was not a nonviolent first-timer who stole a loaf of bread.
In 2007 he and two other men robbed a cigarette store and a water store in Gardena. Moore has described tying up the tobacco store owner and punching him in the face after the man tried to escape.
He fled to Alabama, was caught, and extradited. The original two-year sentence ballooned by 10 years because of gang-related enhancements. One of his accomplices, Terrence Adams, was later charged in a 2023 murder case.
Prison did not reform him. Officials found narcotics hidden inside a condom his girlfriend brought during a visit, plus a knife. That added five more years.
Moore later laughed about it on a 2024 podcast: he thought he could “pass it.” He could not. Guards put him on “potty watch.” He also described prison fights and meth use.
He served time at High Desert, Kern Valley, and the California Institute for Men. Credits for “good behavior” helped get him out in 2021 after about 14 years.
Then the rehabilitation industrial complex went to work.
While incarcerated he took classes through Lake Tahoe Community College and later participated in the state’s Rising Scholars program for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students. LTCC featured him as a scholarship recipient, peer mentor, and student senator.
After release, Manifest Works, a group that helps ex-cons land entertainment-industry jobs, helped him work as a production assistant.
A podcast host said she felt an “overwhelming sense of privilege” to meet him. He was honored at a scholarship luncheon. Less than three months later, he was in handcuffs in a Humboldt dorm.
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