Police Beat
Tom Collins
Arizona Summer Wildcat
August 7, 1996
Police Beat
Tom Collins
Arizona Summer Wildcat
August 7, 1996
Wednesday, July 31
A Chevrolet Suburban was stolen form the parking lot adjacent to Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St.
A non-student male, on campus to attend a teaching seminar, parked the light blue 1991 truck in the lot at 7:30 a.m. When he returned at 4 p.m., it was missing.
Police found no signs of forced entry.
Thursday, August 1
A Tucson man driving on East Second Street at 11 p.m. hit a road sign with his vehicle.
Police estimated the car was traveling more than 30 mph in a 25 mph zone during a heavy rain.
The driver, Robert S. Rhodes, 18, of the 1100 block of West Farr Street, said he was driving close to the curb in order to drive through puddles of rainwater when his passenger, a 19-year-old Tucson man, noticed the sign and yelled at him. Rhodes told po lice he tried to avoid the sign but was unable to.
The sign was two feet from the curb.
Neither man was wearing his seat belt, but there were no injuries. Rhodes' car, a 1986 Toyota Camry, was damaged, with part of its undercarriage hanging out from underneath the car.
Rhodes was cited for traveling faster than a reasonable and prudent speed and received a warning for reckless driving. He was released at the scene.
The value of the damage to the sign was unknown.
Friday, August 2
University police found two windows unsecured on the first floor of the Douglass Building, 1100 E. University Blvd., at about 2:30 a.m.
Police found a window on the north side of the building unlocked, and one on the south side broken.
An interior check of the building revealed nothing. Police locked the north window. No marks were found around the broken window.
A residence life employee called police to report damage to a window screen at the Hopi Residence Hall, 1440 E. Fourth St.
The employee told police the hall had been used by a teen basketball camp and that about 10 screens had been damaged.
Police could not ascertain whether the screens were damaged by people trying to get in or people trying to get out.
The administrator in charge of the program was notified, and police took no action.
University police were called after a father-son disciplinary situation seemed to get out of hand at the Student Recreation Center, 1400 E. Sixth St.
At 4:30 p.m., the father, an Ohio man who had brought his sons to Tucson for the summer, arrived to pick up his sons after a fight at a children's basketball camp.
The father went into the office of the camp facilitator to discuss the incident. His son continually interrupted the meeting and was put outside by the father.
The boy continued to yell and eventually got up to leave the Recreation Center. His father spanked him and placed him physically in a chair.
The boy again walked into the facilitator's office, and his father slapped him and shoved him into a bookcase.
The father apologized for his behavior.
Police were unable to find evidence of abuse or anything other than punishment.
Sunday, August 4
A routine traffic stop ended in a foot chase through campus.
University police, traveling west on East Sixth Street at 1 a.m., saw a grey Honda Prelude make a left onto North Park Avenue, in violation of a no left turn sign.
Police stopped the car on East South Campus Drive and approached the driver. The officer smelled alcohol as he approached the car and noticed that the driver, John C. Dolan, 21, of the 5000 block of North Grande Avenue, had bloodshot eyes.
Dolan began to drive away from the officer as he approached. The officer returned to his car and followed Dolan until South Campus Drive ended.
Dolan exited his car and began running away. He ran around Old Main and between the Engineering building and the Memorial Student Union on East University Boulevard before a backup unit stopped and handcuffed him at the intersection of East North Campus D rive and North Mountain Avenue.
Dolan was taken to UAPD headquarters, where he admitted drinking and took an intoxilyzer test. His blood alcohol level was .114 and .115 on two intoxilyzer tests.
Dolan's driver's license was confiscated, and he was cited for failure to obey a traffic control device, failure to obey a police officer, DUI, and DUI with a blood alcohol content of greater than .10 .
Dolan was released to a relative.
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