Police Beat

The staff member told police she spotted a man walking down a second-floor hallway at 12:10 p.m., police reports stated. She reportedly asked the man if she could help him with anything.

The man reportedly told the employee he was there "to help with the lighting and looking for Jerry," but didn't know "Jerry's" last name, reports stated.

The employee told police she tried to help the man by referring him to someone from the maintenance department, but he reportedly said he didn't need help and headed toward the elevator, reports stated.

The staff member said the man rode the elevator to the third floor, and then returned to the second floor. When the doors opened, the man was reportedly "trying to conceal himself," reports stated.

When police officers arrived, they were not able to locate the man. Nothing was reported stolen from the cancer center, reports stated.

A UA Parking and Transportation Services employee called police Wednesday afternoon to report a damaged boot.

The employee told police a white 1994 Honda Civic was booted on March 15 at 11:15 a.m. because of "several unpaid parking tickets," police reports stated.

On Wednesday the owner of the Civic paid all the parking tickets and requested the boot be removed from his car.

At 10:20 a.m., a Parking and Transportation employee went to remove the boot and found it damaged.

"It appeared as if it was hit several times with a hammer," reports stated.

In order to remove the boot, parking department workers had to cut off the lock.

The owner of the Civic told Parking and Transportation he had no idea how the boot was damaged.

Parking and Transportation employees contacted UAPD, but police were unable to contact the car's owner.

A student called police Thursday afternoon because she believed a man was stalking her, police reports stated.

The student told police a "heavy" man in his 50s or 60s with gray hair went to her workplace on an unknown date and "just stared" at her, reports stated.

She told police she parked her car on North Second Avenue and East University Boulevard on Wednesday at 11 a.m. When she returned to her car at 3 p.m., her "engine was tampered with," reports stated.

The student said she believed the same man immobilized her car, reports stated.

Police referred a man to the Dean of Student's Diversion Program Thursday afternoon after a "stolen permit" was found in his car, police reports stated.

An employee from Parking and Transportation Services called police at 11:50 a.m. and said the permit was found inside a student's white 1992 Nissan. The permit in the Nissan was reported lost to Parking and Transportation in September.

The student with the permit told the employee he bought it and was sharing it with his brother.

After the permit was reported stolen, the student and his brother reportedly bought a replacement.

The student said he found the lost permit in his car "a month ago" and started using it. He said he did not inform Parking and Transportation.

The student admitted that "what he did was wrong," reports stated.

Police told the student he will be arrested on suspicion of theft of services if he does not complete the diversion program.

An officer found a message spray-painted on the south side wall of Alpha Epsilon Phi Thursday morning.

The message, written in red paint, stated, "Now it all begins SPC," police reports stated.

The officer spotted the vandalism at 9:22 a.m. The time that the incident occurred remains unknown.

Police were unable to contact any members of the fraternity.

Police arrested a Tucson man on suspicion of trespassing Thursday morning after he told police he was "meditating" outside the Subway Sandwich and Salads, 914 E. Speedway Blvd., police reports stated.

Clifford Edelman, 49, of a general delivery address, was seen outside the eatery at 1:38 a.m. An employee called police because Edelman had been asked to leave several times, reports stated.

Police found Edelman outside the UA-area Jack in the Box restaurant, 934 E. Speedway Blvd.

Edelman was arrested on suspicion of trespassing the day before at the same location and taken to Pima County Jail.

Police took Edelman back to jail, where he was booked.

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