POLICE BEAT

According to police reports, the student placed the "jack-o-lantern" at 2 a.m. in the hallway in front of his door in La Paz Residence Hall, 602 N. Highland Ave.

The student told police the pumpkin was gone when he checked outside at 7:45 a.m.

When police asked the student if a ransom note or any other evidence was left, the student said, "no," reports stated.

Police arrested a male student Thursday night on suspicion of underage drinking and criminal littering, and a female student on suspicion of driving without headlights and failure to obey traffic signs.

Officers were driving east on East Sixth Avenue at 10:42 p.m. when they saw a green Acura Integra going west without headlights on, police reports stated.

Police made a U-turn and drove west on Sixth, following the Integra.

Hallie Chenoa Campbell, 19, of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority house, 1435 E. Second St., made an illegal left turn on to North Tyndall Avenue from Sixth and began to drive south, according to reports.

As the Integra turned the corner, the front seat passenger, Bryan David Johnson, 20, of the 2100 block of East Fifth Street, threw an 18-pack of Coors Light out the passenger-side window, reports stated.

Officers pulled the car over at the corner of East Seventh Street and Tyndall.

Johnson told officers the clerk working at the Texaco Star Mart convenience store, on the corner of Sixth and North Park Avenue, did not check his identification when he bought the beer, reports stated.

Johnson and Campbell were cited and released.

A student was arrested early Saturday morning on suspicion of underage drinking after officers saw 15 people flee from a porch into a house with cups in hand.

According to police reports, officers drove by 1824 E. Seventh St. at 1:51 a.m. and saw 15 people on the porch holding cups and heard loud music coming from inside the house.

According to reports, when the people on the porch saw officers coming, they ran inside, shut the front door, locked it and turned off the porch light.

An officer heard a voice inside the house say, "Don't open the door for him," reports stated.

Kevin David Jones, 19, a resident of the house, answered the door.

According to reports, police could see a keg of beer inside the house. Jones told officers no one at the party was of age. He said he didn't know who had bought the beer. Officers then saw a second keg in another room, reports stated.

Police took the kegs into evidence, cited Jones and released him.

A student called police Friday night after she heard someone yell "help" in a room down the hall from hers.

Officers arrived at the La Paz Residence Hall, 602 N. Highland Ave., at 5:29 p.m., and spoke with two feuding roommates and a father.

One woman wanted her sheets back before her roommate moved out, but the roommate and her father were not forthcoming with the bed covers.

The woman told police her roommate had sex on her bed and refused to return the sheets, reports stated.

According to reports, the father of the resident who was moving out raised his voice to the other woman and called her a "nigger." The woman told police she pushed the man, causing him to trip over a suitcase.

The father told police he didn't want to press charges, reports stated.

The other resident told police her roommate was a "bitch" and didn't get along with her. The resident then returned the sheets to her roommate, reports stated.

Officers did not leave the scene until the woman moved all her things out of the dorm room.

A student called police Friday afternoon after he tried to stop a man from stealing his car.

According to reports, the man told police he parked his blue 1981 Buick sedan on the second level of the Main Gate garage, 815 E. Second St., at 12:23 p.m.

The student told officers he could not recall if he had locked his car.

When he returned to his car at 1:30 p.m., he saw a man he did not recognize driving his car toward the exit of the garage, reports stated.

The student told officers he ran after the car, but was unable to catch up to it, reports stated.

Police found no evidence of forced entry in the parking spot where his car had been.

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