Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 22, 1996

A male student recovered his stolen bicycle Wednesday after a chase through campus.
The student was at the Ina E. Gittings Building, 1713 E. University Blvd., performing ROTC exercises at 3:17 p.m., when he saw a man in the bicycle racks southeast of the building.
"I thought it was taking a long time for this guy to get his bike, then I realized that it was my bike he was taking," the student told police.
The man rode off on the specialized Hard Rock bicycle, and the student chased the man north before losing him. A bystander told the student that he saw the man riding at East First Street and North Campbell Avenue.The student saw his bicycle in the back of a white GMC pickup truck which had just turned from First Street south onto Campbell.
The student jumped into the back of the slow-moving truck, grabbed his bicycle and jumped back out. The student was not injured.

A female student reported being verbally assaulted Thursday at the intersection of East Speedway Boulevard and North Cherry Avenue.
The student said she was waiting to turn right onto Cherry at 9:10 a.m. when a woman got out of the car beside the student's and knocked on the student's driver-side window.
"Fuck you, bitch," the woman reportedly yelled as she kicked the driver-side door.
The woman then got back into a gray, mid-sized car driven by a man. They drove off.
The student said she did not do anything to instigate the insult and would prosecute the woman.
Black marks were left on the driver-side door, but it was not dented. The value of the damage was estimated at $50.

Two incidents of annoying phone calls were reported Friday to university police.
A female resident of Babcock Inn, 1717 E. Speedway Blvd., reported she and her suite mate had been receiving annoying calls since Sept. 27.
The caller never says anything, the report stated.
A male resident of Graham-Greenlee Residence Hall, 610 N. Highland Ave., told police he and his roommate had been receiving unwanted calls five times a day.
The caller asks for "Rob," despite being told several times that Rob does not live in the room.
The caller is occasionally obscene and has left messages, the resident told police.
Police told the roommates to save further messages. The roommates were told to use the *57 function on their phone to trace the calls and to keep a log of them. The female students were given the same advice.

University police found a boy lying on the north-side sidewalk of the 900 block of East Sixth Street.
Witnesses told police the 16-year-old boy was rollerblading down the sidewalk Saturday at 8:50 p.m. when he was hit by a flying bottle.
The bottle was thrown from a 1990 White Nissan driving west on Sixth as the passengers yelled, "Fuckin' rollerbladers." The boy had a red bruise on his back but refused medical attention.

A Tucson man was arrested Saturday after he allegedly ran a stop sign at East Enke Drive and North Warren Avenue.
Police reports gave this account:
At 2:24 a.m., Louis J. Chmulak, 21, of the 1000 block of East 13th Street, turned his red Subaru from Enke onto Warren without stopping at a stop sign. University police saw him and attempted to stop his vehicle. Chmulak drove west on East Sixth Street then turned south onto North Cherry Avenue, driving at "a very high rate of speed."
Chmulak stopped in front of his house on 13th Street, got out of his car, went into the house and closed his blinds.
Chmulak's roommate let police into the house where they found Chmulak on the floor of his room.
Responding officers recognized Chmulak from a previous arrest and from an incident on Oct. 14, when, at 3:58 p.m., university police saw Chmulak ride a black motor scooter on the sidewalk of East Speedway Boulevard. Police had asked him to stop, but he rode off.
He was booked into Pima County Jail on two counts of reckless driving, two counts of failure to stop a motor vehicle on command and two counts of driving on a suspended license.

Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department reports.