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POLICE BEAT

By Liz Dailey
Arizona Daily Wildcat
October 20, 1998
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University police arrested a student on suspicion of assault and threats Saturday night after they watched him punch another student in the jaw.

Officers went to the corner of North Park Avenue and East University Boulevard at 1:27 a.m. after receiving a call about a fight, police reports stated.

The officers arrived and stopped a white 1997 Toyota pickup truck at the corner of University and Park.

According to reports, the student driving the truck began to speak with officers when another student, Michael John Lojudice, 22, of the 1200 block of North Euclid Avenue, approached the truck and said, "Did something happen here? Is everything all right?"

The officer asked Lojudice if he knew the man driving the truck, and he said he didn't. Police then asked Lojudice to step away from the truck, which he did, reports stated.

Lojudice then lunged forward and hit the other student in the jaw with his right fist, and the student stumbled backwards. The officer grabbed Lojudice and tried to calm him down, but Lojudice ignored the officer and continued to fight with the student.

According to reports, another officer came and assisted in wrestling Lojudice to the ground.

The other student refused medical treatment, and said he was willing to prosecute.

As he was being driven to Pima County Jail, Lojudice said to officers, "I drove two miles to find this guy. I fucking clocked him as hard as I could. If I see that guy again, I'm gonna fucking kill him. He's dead," reports stated.

Lojudice told police the other student had hit his brother earlier that evening. He was cited and released by pre-trial services.


A university employee told police Friday morning that someone had left an obscene message on her car.

According to police reports, the woman said she parked her car Tuesday 8 a.m. in a lot located at East Helen Street and North Warren Street. When she returned to her car at 6:30 p.m., she found a note on the right side of the rear view mirror that stated, "Watch out. I spilled sperm on your back seat."

The woman said she didn't see any evidence of forced entry into her car.


A female student called police Saturday afternoon af-ter reportedly receiving a sexually harassing phone call.

According to police reports, the student received the call in her room at Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall, 910 E. Fifth St., at 11:20 a.m. She told officers she didn't recognize the man's voice. The woman asked him what he wanted and he said, "Do you mind if I finish what I'm doing?"

The woman told police she heard heavy breathing. She asked him what he was doing, and he reportedly said, "I'm jacking off." The woman told police she hung up after he said that, reports stated.

Police told her to try and trace the call.


A female student called police Saturday night after she reportedly received more than 30 calls in one hour.

According to police reports, the student was in her Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall room , 910 E. Fifth St., at 6 p.m. when the calls started.

The woman told police she didn't recognize his voice. He tried numerous times to disguise his voice to make himself sound Mexican, and he made kissing sounds at her, reports stated.

Police told her to try and trace the call.


Two students were arrested Saturday night on suspicion of underage drinking after officers saw them urinating in public.

Police were driving east on East Second Street at 12:46 a.m. when they saw Justin Ryan Hersch, 20, of the 100 block of South Players Club Drive and Christopher Abbot Anderson, 18, of the 1000 block of East South Campus Drive urinating in the dirt on the south side of the Pima Residence Hall, 1340 E. First St.

Both students admitted to drinking. Officers cited, released and verbally warned them about urinating in public, reports stated.


An employee found a knife Thursday morning while working in the Psychology building, 1503 E. University Blvd., police reports stated.

The employee called police at 9:30 a.m. after finding the knife inside a box on top of a trash can on the east side of the building.

The employee showed the knife to a coworker who reportedly remembered reading an article in the Arizona Daily Wildcat that involved a knife, reports stated.

The employee who found the knife turned it over to police.

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