By Bryon Wells
Arizona Daily Wildcat
January 30, 1998

Police Beat

A 61-year-old Tucson woman stopped for speeding on North Campbell Avenue Wednesday morning told officers she was in a hurry because she had "to be online by 6," university police reports stated.

At 5:30 a.m., university police paced a 1985 Plymouth Voyager driving 62 mph in the 35 mph zone of Campbell Avenue between East Second Street and East Seventh Street while making erratic lane changes, police reports stated.

When police stopped the vehicle, the driver, Pauline L. Arndt, of the 6100 block of East Grant Road, told the officer she didn't realize she was going so fast, and that she was in a hurry.

"I have to be online by 6," Arndt told the officer, according to police reports. Officers did not know what the comment meant.

A Tucson man was arrested Wednesday morning after UA employees noticed him wandering between floors at McClelland Hall, 1130 E. Helen St.

An employee told university police she saw a man walking toward an office on the building's fourth floor at 6:45 a.m.

The employee called university police after a UA custodial worker said she saw the same man 10 minutes earlier, walking down a hall on the third floor, checking locked doors.

When officers arrived at 7 a.m., they found Gary Jones, 40, of the 1200 block of East 24th Street, in a fourth-floor men's room. A check indicated that Jones had several warnings and arrests for criminal trespassing at the UA, police reports stated.

Jones told police he was reading a bulletin board on the fourth floor.

According to the report, Jones made several "off-the-wall" comments and said that there is a conspiracy against him involving the Tucson Police Department, university police and the Pima County Sheriff's Department.

He was arrested on a charge of criminal trespassing, then taken to the Pima County Jail, where he was released by Pre-trial Services.

A student reported Tuesday that he saw a woman drive away after hitting a parked vehicle in the Second Street Garage, 1340 E. Second St.

The man told university police he was walking toward a stairwell on the second level when he heard a crunching sound.

When the student turned, he told university police he saw a gray car driven by a woman scrape against the rear bumper of a Mercury Cougar and drive away, police reports stated.

The student got the license plate numbers of both vehicles and gave them to police.

Police located the Mercury's driver, an employee at the UA Attorney's Office, who told police she did not realize she struck the parked car, reports stated.

The woman agreed to pay for the damages.

A student called university police Tuesday after communications between him and a female student who hit his car last October degenerated.

The student told university police the woman hit his 1993 Ford Mustang in Lot 6091, near East Sixth Street and North Highland Avenue.

He told police he was waiting to pull out of a parking space when the woman's Pontiac Trans Am struck his car's driver's side door while attempting to park in the adjacent space.

The man told police the two traded information and agreed to take care of the matter themselves.

According to police reports, the woman agreed to pay the $500 worth of damages in monthly installments, but has not contacted the student since.

An employee Monday reported receiving an obscene e-mail message she believed was mistakenly sent to her at the University Services Building, 888 N. Euclid Ave.

University police obtained a print out the sexually explicit message, which was written in Spanish.

According to reports, the message was sent to another female employee. Police were unable to find the message's origin.

A female student's Chevy Blazer was stolen Tuesday from the lot just north of Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St.

The woman told university police that she parked in Lot 5065 about 1 p.m. and returned at 3:45 p.m. to find her vehicle missing, police reports stated.

The woman told police there were several items in her vehicle, including a Zone 1 parking permit, a tool box with an assortment of Craftsman tools, a blue Columbia jacket and a $100 pair of Nike running shoes.

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