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POLICE BEAT

By Liz Dailey
Arizona Daily Wildcat
September 30, 1998
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University police were called to the Texaco Star Mart, 501 N. Park Ave., early Monday morning after a man reportedly threatened a store clerk.

Officers arrived at 2:09 a.m. to find Joseph Rurick Cheever, 35, of a general delivery address, sitting on a bench in front of the store. The officer asked Cheever what had happened and he responded, "Look sir, I'm an alcoholic. I just want to go to LARC," police reports stated.

Cheever then told police he had gone into the store and asked the clerk to phone the Local Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center, or LARC, for him. The clerk refused to call, and Cheever told the officer he had tried to call 911, but no one answered.

Another university officer, who had been at the scene earlier, was told by the clerk that Cheever had threatened him. Cheever denied the accusation, reports stated.

The clerk told the officer that Cheever came into the store asking for food - a request that was refused. Cheever also had reportedly asked him to phone 911 and again the clerk refused.

According to reports, Cheever then said to the clerk, "I'm gonna wrap that phone cord around your neck and come over the counter and kick your ass." Other people in the store told police they had heard Cheever threaten the clerk.

The clerk told police that Cheever lunged forward at him and then walked out. The clerk then called police.

Cheever told the officer he had once been in the army and that the clerk was, "a punk who would never survive in a war," reports stated.

Cheever was arrested on suspicion of making threats at 2:15 a.m. and took him to LARC.

According to reports, Cheever told police while being transported, "I didn't threaten that guy. I would have gone over the counter and broken his neck instead."

He was later released.


A Tucson woman was taken to the hospital Monday afternoon after she threatened to kill herself, police reports stated.

The woman was at the Family Practice Trailer, 1415 N. Cherry Ave., when another person at the establishment called university police at 11:25 a.m. and told them a patient was threatening to commit suicide.

According to reports, police arrived and decided the woman needed to be evaluated by the MAC Team, short for the Mobile Acute Crisis Team.

The MAC Team was unable to see the woman after threatening suicide, so officers then requested a doctor at Kino Hospital, 2800 E. Ajo Way, to fill out an emergency petition for admission.

The woman was then taken to Kino Hospital and admitted, reports stated.


A UA employee called police Monday afternoon after the UA golf cart she was driving was vandalized.

The employee told police she parked the golf cart on the northeast side of the McKale Center, 1721 E. Enke Drive, at 10 a.m. so she could go to the bathroom, police reports stated.

The employee told police that when she came back out 10 minutes later, someone had shattered the golf cart's windshield.


A university officer on patrol found a broken first story window early Monday morning.

According to reports, the officer was on the west side of the Engineering building, 1127 E. North Campus Drive, at 3:25 a.m. when he found the shattered window.

The point of impact was approximately 2 feet up from the floor.


A UA employee called police Monday morning after finding a window, screen door and a wooden door damaged, police reports stated.

The employee told police she left the Faculty Center, 1400 E. Mable St., 5:30 p.m. Friday.

According to reports, the building was undamaged when she left. When she returned 7:45 a.m. Monday she found the damaged property.

She also told police she found a piece of cement, which had apparently been thrown, at the damaged property, reports stated.

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