By John Brown
Arizona Daily Wildcat
September 12, 1997

Police Beat

A student employee was injured Tuesday after the golf cart she was driving smashed into the east side of McKale Center.

According to reports, about 4:40 p.m., the student was en route to the southeast side entrance. The cart's brakes and emergency brakes failed to stop the vehicle and the cart crashed into the glass door entrance.

The student suffered minor cuts and required several stitches in her left leg.

The door's glass windows were broken from the crash.

A female student reported that she was assaulted while riding a Sun Tran bus to school Wednesday morning.

The student told university police the bus was near East Grant Road and North Alvernon Way when a man touched her neck and then requested sexual favors.

The investigation was turned over to Tucson Police Department since the incident occurred off campus.

A student reported his $700 watch was stolen Sept. 2 from Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St.

He told university police that he put his Raymond Reil chrome steel link wristwatch on the window sill sometime after midnight and found it missing about 6:30 p.m., the next day.

According to reports, the student may have left the room unlocked when he went to the bathroom, which is connected to the room next door.

He said a number of people could have taken it since his neighbors usually have a lot of visitors to their room.

University police arrested two men Monday after police found them at Kaibab-Huachuca Residence Hall attempting to sell magazines.

Victor Pacheco, 19, of Springfield, Mass. , and Jason Jalbert, 19, of Lewiston, Maine were both arrested on charges of first degree trespassing. Jalbert had additional charges of giving false information to a police officer and failure to appear on a minor in possession of alcohol violation.

At 6:14 p.m., police went to the dorm at 922 E. Fourth St., and found Jalbert on the second floor.

Jalbert told police he was visiting his cousin and pointed to a girl inside one of the rooms.

Police then noticed a black binder under his shirt with paperwork and receipts in it.

Jalbert told police he had lied because he knew he would get arrested, reports stated.

According to reports, Pacheco then walked out of another room and when he saw police, he said, "Oh shit."

Both men were booked into Pima County Jail and released by pretrial services.

Two UA employees talked to a bike thief moments before he stole their friend's mountain bike Monday, but were unable to catch the man as he rode away near East Seventh Street and North Vine Avenue.

The Parking and Transportation employees told university police they were coming into parking lot #8109 at about 2:45 p.m. when they saw a man sitting next to a third employee's $600 mountain bike.

One employee told police the man looked ill so he asked him if he was all right.

The man replied, "I'm just sitting here resting." reports stated.

The man then went into the truck compound, but one of the employees became suspicious and went back outside to find the man riding away.

The employee ran after the man but lost sight of him near North Vine Avenue and Broadway Boulevard.

The man was in his mid 30s and had a thick mustache.

Students reported five more bicycle thefts between Monday and yesterday. All of the thefts occurred during daytime hours and each bike had been secured with a cable lock.

The combined value of the bikes was more than $1,500.

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