POLICE BEAT

According to police reports, a UA Associated Students Bookstore, 1209 E. University Blvd., security guard told police he watched an unidentified man and woman walk into the bookstore at 10:09 a.m. The security guard said the woman's purse was empty and open when she walked in, and when she left with the man at 10:12 a.m. her purse was full and closed.

The employee gave police a videotape of the two people and told police they did not pay for anything. The employee believed the two people took three engineering textbooks and were involved in a previous theft where stolen UA textbooks were sold to Rothers Bookstore, 501 N. Park Ave., reports stated.

According to reports, the UA security guard showed the video to the Rothers manager. The manager told the UA employee he didn't recognize the man but did remember the woman and said she wasn't welcome in Rothers because of previous conflicts.

A resident assistant called police late Monday morning after finding a backpack.

Officers went to the Kaibab-Huachuca Residence Hall, 940 E. Fourth St., at 11:14 a.m. and took the backpack to headquarters to try and find the owner, police reports stated.

The black Eddie Bauer pack contained no forms of identification, but did have a one ounce bottle of eye drops, a copy of High Times magazine and a glass pipe inside a blue Styrofoam case.

The property was placed into evidence, reports stated.

An employee called police Tuesday morning after her car was struck by another car in a UA parking lot.

According to police reports, the woman told police she was parked in a Zone 1 lot located at North Campbell Avenue and East Helen Street at 11:15 a.m. While she was backing her 1982 red Porsche out of a parking spot, a 1990 white Ford Taurus, driving south through the lot, hit the back of her car.

The owner of the Porsche told police the driver of the Taurus continued to drive through the lot after the collision. The woman then told police the Taurus parked in a spot, reports stated.

The owner of the Taurus and the Porsche owner exchanged insurance information and then the Taurus owner left.

The employee told police her insurance agent was there and took photos of the damage, reports stated.

An employee called police Tuesday morning after he noticed two laptop computers missing from his office.

The man told police he left the computers, a Macintosh Power Book valued at $1,000 and a $1,500 Macintosh Power Book in his office in the Life Sciences South building, 1007 E. Lowell St. at 3 p.m. on Oct. 21, police reports stated.

The employee told police he returned to his office Oct. 22 at noon to discover the computers gone.

According to reports, the employee told police the computers were last seen on a table in the office, and the door was unlocked. He also said someone is usually in the office during the week until 8 p.m.

The man said he was unsure if anyone locked the door during the time the computers were stolen, but said the main doors to the Life Sciences South building are locked by 5 p.m. during the week, reports stated.

The employee told police he would call them again when he obtained the computers' serial numbers.

A student reported her backpack stolen Tuesday afternoon after she left it unattended in a room in the Music building, 1017 N. Olive Road.

According to police reports, the student told police she was in a rehearsal room in the Music building at 2:30 p.m.

Reports stated that the room was very small, so the student left her backpack in another room next to where she was rehearsing. When she came out at 3:30 p.m. her backpack was gone.

The student's bag contained a black purse, a General Telephone and Electric Visa Card, a Bank One debit card, an Arizona driver's license, a CatCard, a compact disk, a $35 text book entitled Ear Training, $8 in cash, a $70 UA bus pass and a $85 Texas Instruments calculator.

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