By: Jake Stark

University of Minnesota police issued a trespass warning Thursday to a Minneapolis man who has been banned in the past from two area colleges.

 Larry James Pinkney, 62, allegedly harassed several students and two staff members at the Social Sciences Building last week, according to a University police report.

Pinkney has been banned from St. Thomas University and Macalester College in the past, according to the report.

Two staff members found Pinkney interviewing several students in a conference room around 5 p.m. Friday, April 5. Pinkney showed them his credentials and said he was a journalist and was interviewing the students for research.

The staff members asked him to leave the building, which was closed, and told him the conference room was reserved for a private meeting, the report said. Pinkney then allegedly became hostile but left the area after they repeatedly told him to leave.

University police investigated Pinkney and discovered the past issues with local colleges and that he had been convicted of third degree sexual assault in 1995, as well.

Officers delivered a trespass warning to Pinkney at his Minneapolis home Thursday, the report said. If he returns to campus in the next year, University police will arrest him, said Deputy Chief Chuck Miner.