POLICE BEAT

According to police reports, the woman saw a well-dressed man with a stocky build and curly, light-brown hair walk past her at 4:30 p.m. She told police he seemed surprised when he saw her.

The employee later told officers someone attempted to cut a fence protecting the vending machines near Babcock Residence Hall, 1717 E. Speedway Blvd., within the last few weeks.

According to reports, the woman said a custodial employee of hers was assaulted while walking to Babcock early one morning last week. Some of her employees also told her there were "street people" sleeping in a Dumpster near the dorm.

The employee told officers she has seen people wandering around the dorm who aren't residents.

Police told the employee they would increase security around Babcock, reports stated.

A UA student called police Thursday afternoon after a man attempted to steal her car stereo as she returned to her car from class.

According to police reports, the student was returning at 4:45 p.m. to her car parked in a lot at the corner of East Speedway Boulevard and North Cherry Avenue.

She saw the driver side door of her red 1995 Chevrolet pickup truck ajar and a man was crouched next to it reaching up under the dashboard.

According to reports, the student said, "What the fuck are you doing?" to the man and then began hitting him with her hands and backpack.

Another student, who was pulling out of the parking lot at the time of the attempted burglary, told police she saw a man running north on Cherry Avenue and saw him get into a white car. The car went north on Cherry and turned right onto East Helen Street.

The victim told police she later saw a white, two-door hatchback with two other men inside, drive out of the parking lot. The student said she was sure the men in the car were associated with the man who had broken into her truck, according to reports. She tried to read the white car's license plate number but could remember only part of it when police arrived.

According to reports, the victim was able to give enough detail to police to create a composite sketch of the man.

Officers arrested a UA student on suspicion of drug possession Thursday morning after he picked up a package full of what officers believed to be marijuana from the front desk of Apache-Santa Cruz Residence Hall, 1420 E. Fifth St., police reports stated.

Police were already in the residence hall waiting for Jason C. Koch, 18, of Apache-Santa Cruz, to pick up the package that reportedly had a strong odor of marijuana.

Koch came to the front desk at 10:30 a.m. and picked up the box. Police then went to his room and searched through it. They found four baggies full of a leafy green substance, reports stated.

Koch was cited and released.

A resident assistant at Coronado Residence Hall, 822 E. Fifth St., reported smelling burning marijuana Thursday night.

The RA told police at 10:53 p.m. she could smell the marijuana and then escorted them to the room where the smell was coming from, reports stated.

Officers spoke with Matthew C. Berkson, 18, resident of Coronado, about the smell, and Berkson denied any knowledge of it.

Berkson agreed to let police search his room, and the officers found one pipe in a bag in his closet. Berkson told police, "That's mine, but I haven't smoked in a long time. My roommate was here and he might have been smoking pot in here," reports stated.

Officers saw a picture in Berkson's room of a man smoking a bong. Police asked him if that was his roommate, and Berkson told them it was.

Police cited Berkson on suspicion of drug paraphernalia possession and told him to have his roommate call UAPD when he arrived home.

When officers spoke with Berkson's roommate, he told police he hadn't been home all day and had no drugs in his possession.

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