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By Alicia A. Caldwell
Arizona Daily Wildcat
November 5, 1997

Police Beat

Three male employees called university police Thursday after the owner of an illegally parked 1989 GMC Blazer began yelling and screaming at them.

The truck was reportedly blocking an intersection at Campbell Farms, 4101 N. Campbell Ave.

The employees told officers they saw a woman come out of the bathrooms and begin to yell at them saying she was unhappy with the treatment of the animals at the farm, police reports stated.

According to reports, the woman told one employee he should "go back to Mexico."

The employees told officers the woman continued to yell obscenities at them. When one of them left to call the police, she went to the sheep pens and continued to yell, police reports stated.

The woman told the employees she would "shut this fucking place down," and added the animals were "fucking scared," police reports stated.

According to police reports, the employees told officers they did not want to press charges.

Officers warned the woman and told her not to come back to the farm or she would be arrested.


University police arrested two 18-year-old students on liquor charges Monday after seeing them standing with beer during a patrol drive.

Officers saw Jennifer Watkins and Elizabeth Anderson, both of the 800 Block of East Fifth Street, on the far north side of an alley near the 1800 block of East First Street, with a can of Keystone Beer in Watkins' hand and another next to her on the ground, police reports stated.

Watkins and Anderson reportedly turned around when they saw officers and began to walk north. Officers asked them to stop and asked their ages.

Both Watkins and Anderson told officers they were 21 years old and did not have any identification, police reports stated.

According to reports, officers asked to look in their purses and Anderson got out her identification saying, "Oh I forgot, I do have ID." She then told officers she was 18 years old.

Watkins also told officers she was 18, police reports stated.

The two were cited and released at the scene.


A male employee called university police Friday about 11 a.m. after finding graffiti spray-painted on the south walls of the Park Avenue Garage, 1140 N. Park Ave.

The employee told officers the graffiti was not there when he left the building Thursday about 9 p.m., police reports stated.

Officers took pictures of all of the markings, including possible gang-related art, police reports stated.


A female student called university police Thursday after finding the doors to her 1990 Jeep Wrangler missing.

The student told officers she parked her Jeep in the parking lot of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority, 1535 E. First St., about 12:30 a.m.

When she came back at 3 p.m. both doors were gone, police reports stated.

According to police reports, the student told officers the doors were not locked down and could easily have been removed by pulling out the pin and lifting them up.

Nothing else was missing from the Jeep, police reports stated.

The value of the doors was unknown.


A female employee called university police Thursday after finding key-mark graffiti on her 1986 Honda Accord.

She told officers she parked her car Thursday at about 8 a.m. in lot 4056 at East Speedway Boulevard and North Cherry Avenue.

When she returned at 4 p.m. she found the markings on her car, police reports stated.

Police reports stated it appeared someone tried to pry the rear bumper off the car.

The employee told officers she had had several work-related problems and thought a person or persons from her department were responsible.

The value of the damages was unknown.


A male student called university police Friday after the stereo equipment from his 1990 Jeep Cherokee was missing.

The student told officers he parked his car at 3 a.m. in the parking lot of Corleone Apartments, 1330 N. Park Ave.

He said he returned at 1 p.m. that day to find his rear driver's side window removed. An Alpine CD player and amplifier and Boston Rally Tweeters were also gone, police reports stated.

According to police reports, the rubber molding around the window had been removed and the intact glass lifted out.

The value of the equipment was unknown.

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


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