Police Beat
Correction
Due to an error in University of Arizona Police Department reports, Monday's "Police Beat" incorrectly identified the employment status of an alleged assailant. The man was a former employee of Gentle Ben's Brewing Co., who had worked there for only one day in 1998. The Wildcat regrets the error.
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A fight broke out at a UA-area restaurant April 16 that left one student injured, police reports stated.
An officer was driving west on East University Boulevard at 12:30 a.m. when he saw a brawl in front of Gentle Ben's Brewing Company, 865 E. University Blvd.
Police saw a man on the ground surrounded by a group of people and another man fleeing the area, reports stated.
The student on the ground reportedly had "blood pouring from a laceration above his lip." The injured student was beginning to gain consciousness when the officer attempted to help him.
The student's girlfriend told police the two men got into a verbal argument inside the restaurant. They were escorted out by employees and began to fight, reports stated.
Police reports did not state why the two men began to argue.
The doorman at Gentle Ben's told police the injured student called the man profane names. The man then struck the student in the face and then kicked him in the head once after he fell, reports stated.
The student told police he wanted to press charges.
The doorman said the suspect is a Gentle Ben's employee. Police went to his house but were unable to contact him, reports stated.
Police arrested two students on suspicion of disorderly conduct Thursday afternoon after they allegedly caused a loud explosion-like sound inside a UA building, police reports stated.
Gabriel A. Sorensen and Michael P. Easton told police they were making ice-cream inside the Physics-Atmospheric Science Building, 1118 E. Fourth St., when they decided to go outside and "blow up a small plastic bottle," reports stated.
Sorensen, 19, of the 1400 block of East Seventh Street and Easton, 20, reportedly poured liquid nitrogen into a bottle and combined it with a "gas" substance, causing the loud boom.
An employee told police the sound was so loud he thought "it could have been a gun," reports stated.
Officers were unable to find the bottle.
Easton, who lives in Cochise Residence Hall, 1018 E. South Campus Drive, and Sorensen told officers they did not think the explosion would be "so loud" and said they were "sorry " for scaring people in the area.
The two students were cited and released.
Police removed a man from a UA building Thursday morning after he was spotted sleeping, police reports stated.
An officer was on patrol near the Medical Library, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., at 1:39 a.m., when he saw a man sleeping on the fourth floor of the building.
The officer awakened the man and smelled alcohol on his breath, reports stated. The man was unable to provide the officer with identification and said he did not have a home.
The officer noticed a water bottle of the floor near the man and asked to see it. The man reportedly grabbed the bottle and put it under his left arm.
He asked the officer to let him leave the area.
Police refused to let the man leave, and after a brief physical confrontation, the officer took the bottle and poured out the alcohol.
The man was escorted off the property and verbally warned for trespassing.
Police found false identification in a wallet that was turned in to UAPD headquarters by a mailman, police reports stated.
The wallet was turned in April 20 at 11:25 a.m.
Officers found two forms of ID with different birth dates in the wallet.
Police were unable to locate the wallet's owner, reports stated.
Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department reports.
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